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The Pogues
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It was 1962
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I was two years out of school
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When I got on board a boat
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That was bound for Liverpool
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The day I went away
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I remember it so well
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Said goodbye to the North Wall
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And bid a fond farewell
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When I got down to the smoke
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It was 1963
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I got a job doing meals on wheels
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Round NW3
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I was terrorising grannies
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For ten lousy bob a week
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I was smashed and blacked
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And drunk and yawning in NW3
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In the filth and piss they lived in
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They would sometimes hum an air
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Or talk in tongues of madness
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Keeping time upon a chair
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And for their wrists a numbered tab
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In Westminster morgue
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On a cold hard slab
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When I was still a young man
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In NW3
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Now I'm spent of love and rage
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And I'm going home again
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Never did nobody wrong
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Never earned a decent wage
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So thanks for sweet fuck all
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Once more look at the North Wall
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Say goodbye to all of that
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And bid a fond farewell
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At the top of the Pentonville Road
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I watched the sun setting
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The town spread out before me
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Looked beautiful to me
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Away from all the sighing
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The suffering and the dying
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I dreamed of the future
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Of the young and the free
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But the years they went by quickly
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Now I swear I won't return here
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Where each day just bring me closer
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To the final misery
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My kids will never scrape shit round here
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I won't die crying in a pint of beer
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Or eat their stinking meals on wheels
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In NW3.
The Pogues - NW3
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