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Celtic Thunder
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It was Joey the weasel that gave us the wire,
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They were closing our factory down
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Though we didn't believe him and we called him a liar,
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The redundancy letters came round
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As we read them in silence, I choked back a tear,
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It was hard to believe after twenty-odd years
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(Chorus)
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Farewell my companions, my friends and my workmates
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Farewell to the paydays, the pints and the craic
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Oh, We gave them our best years now they've paid us back,
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By making us yesterday's men,
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Sure as hell,
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By making us yesterday's men
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So We said our goodbyes by the factory gates,
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One cold Friday evening last year
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And I saw it all there in the eyes of ma mates,
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The anger, the sadness, the fear
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Like our fathers before us we worked there with pride,
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Now we fought back the bitterness burning inside
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(Chorus)
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Ah Now Jimmy, said she,
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Give the kids a few bob,
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After all, sure it is Friday night
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But How could I tell her I was out of a job,
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From now on things were going to be tight
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How well I remember it cut like a knife,
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I was never a day on the dole in my life
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(Chorus)
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The machines now are silent, the workbenches bare,
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And there's dust on the factory floor
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They've boarded the windows and have chained up the gates,
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And have padlocked the factory door
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Now I'm on the scrap-heap, and I'm thirty-nine,
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Just one of the hundreds, shot down in my prime
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(Chorus)x2
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