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Shipbuilding was Suede's contribution to the Help album in aid of
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Warchild for
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Bosnia. It is a cover of the Elvis Costello classic and not surprisingly
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I think it is
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An improvement on the original; although I am sure Elvis Costello fans
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Won't
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Agree with me.
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Is it worth it, a new winters coat and shoes for the wife
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And a bicycle on the boys birthday
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It's just a rumour that was spread around town
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By the woman and children, soon we'll be shipbuilding
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Well I ask you, the boy said
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"Dad there going to take me to task,
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But I'll be back by Christmas"
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It's just a rumour that was spread around town
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Somebody said that someone got filled in
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For saying that people get killed in the results of their shipbuilding
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With all the will in the world,
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Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls
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It's just a rumour that was spread around town
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A telegram or a picture postcard
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Within weeks we will be reopening the shipyard
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And notifying the next of kin, once again
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It's always killed in,
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We will be shipbuilding
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With all the will in the world,
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Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls...
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