Here's To You Lyrics

Here's to the town built on iron and steel

The mills they're all gone now returned to green fields

The billet, plate and blast and the big chimney stack

They've torn them all down and they're not coming back

Here's to the men and the women who came

Drawn to the town just like moths round a flame

Each had their own tale to tell or conceal

They looked to the future with their hopes and their dreams

Here's to the miner, his laughter has ceased

And the pit-head's removed for a museum piece

Away from the sun, in the dark underground

He paid the price for the coal that he found

Here's to the farmers, those sons of the soil

They're out in all weather to work and to toil

To old mother earth with the seasons they go

To plough and to harrow, to reap and to sow

Here's to our sons and our daughters who roam

Far away 'cross the ocean, so far from their home

The old iron fist in the soft velvet glove

It forced them to move on, it gave them the shove

Here's to the future and what lies in store

What's happened to us it's all happened before

The wheel's turned full circle, it's time to renew

So I'll bid you farewell and I'll say, here's to you