Salford Town
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1. I've never been
out of Salford Town, the place where I was born,
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except when I was in the ranks and wore a uniform.
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But I'd sooner never travel, if the only
way to see the world,
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is through the battle sights of a mark
four three-0-three.
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2. I've got a little
baby, he's the apple of my eye,
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when I think about his future my thoughts
take wing and fly.
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What kind of future can there be with
planes and tanks and guns,
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and flying high and dropping bombs on
other people's son's.
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3. I'd like to see
the whole wide world, the north, south, east and west.
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I'd like to travel everywhere with the
girl that I love best.
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But I'll stay beside the jewel all my life
before I'll stand,
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in some other country with a bayonet in my
hand.
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4. I work each day
upon the dock, and I watch the ships come in.
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And no one asks to see the colour of a
sailor's skin.
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Side by side they're working, men from
Norway, China, Greece.
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Why can't the statesmen do the same and
let us live in peace.
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Let us live in peace.
(capo 3rd)
(Dubliners)