Merry England Lyrics

Saw you drinking gin, on the fore deck of the steamer

You had a little sadness in your eyes, was it something meaner

All those roads you travelled down, all those bones don't make a sound

History she binds you like a curse

In your house upon the hill, those skies goes on forever

Your children and your servants dancing slowly from the grave

A moment stuck in time, those boys forever hold that line

Tried so hard there's not much they could save

Take me back, take me back to

The old dole queue and the heart attacks

When Bobby O'Reilly he got the sack

Those days I spent with you

Pack me up and send me back

The Irish bombs the Afghan black

Kissing you by the burning shacks

Those days I spent with you

On those stones a sacrifice, a vow to forgo paradise

Stone by stone Jerusalem is handed back

No more to war we'll ever go, they called us up but we didn't show

Keep your bloody shilling in your purse

Take me back, take me back to

The old dole queue and the heart attacks

Bobby O'Reilly he got the sack

The days I spent with you

Pack me up and send me back

The Irish bombs the Afghan black

Kissing you by the burning shacks

Those days I spent with you

Take me to that moment when we met in 1983

I saw you, with your brown eyes, you saw me in my surprise

Before they buried you among the factories and foundries

Built one million call centres where all your children work for free

Shine a light, shine a light

Take me back, take me back to

The old dole queue and the heart attacks

Bobby O'Reilly he got the sack

Those days I spent with you

Pack me up and send me back

The Irish bombs the Afghan black

Kissing you by the burning shacks

Those days I spent with you

Take me back, take me back to

The old dole queue and the heart attacks

Bobby O'Reilly he got the sack

Those days I spent with you

Pack me up and send me back

The Irish bombs the Afghan black

Kissing you by the burning shacks

Those days I spent with you

Those days I spent with you

Those days I spent with you

Those days I spent with you