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Billy was born within sight of the shipyard
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First son of a riveter's son
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And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow
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Her great hull would blot out the light of the sun
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And six days a week he would watch his poor father
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A working man live like a slave
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He'd drink every night and he'd dream of a future,
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Of money he never would save
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And Billy would cry when he thought of the future
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Soon came a day when the bottle was broken
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They launched the great ship out to sea
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He felt he'd been left on a desolate shore
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To a future he desperately wanted to flee
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What else was there for a shipbuilder's son
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A new ship to be built, new work to be done
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One day he dreamed of the ship in the world
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It would carry his father and he
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To a place they would never be found
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To a place far away from this town.
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Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship
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All the workmen suspended like flies
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Caught in the flare of acetylene light
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A working man works till the industry dies
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And Billy would cry when he thought of the future
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Then what they call an industrial accident
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Crushed those it couldn't forgive
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They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance
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A brass watch, a cheque, maybe three weeks to live,
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And what else was there for a riveter's son
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A new ship to be built, new work to be done
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That night, he dreamed of the ship in the world
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It would carry his father and he
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To a place they could never be found
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To a place far away from this town,
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A Newcastle ship without coals
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They would sail to the island of souls.
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