Northern Industrial Town — текст песни (Billy Bragg)

Its just a northern industrial town

The front doors of the houses open into the street

Theres no room for front gardens, just two-up two-down

In a northern industrial town



And you can see the green hills cross the rooftops

And a fresher wind blows past the end of our block

In the evenings the mist come rolling on down

Into a northern industrial town



And theres only two teams in this town

And you must follow one or the other

Let us win, let them lose, not the other way round

In a northern industrial town



And the street lights look pretty and bright

From the tops of the hills they rise dark in the night

If it werent for the rain you might never come down

To your northern industrial town



And on payday they tear the place down

With a pint in your hand and a bashem out band

Sure theyd dance to the rhythm of the rain falling down

In a northern industrial town



And theres plenty of artists around

Painters steal cars, poets nick guitars

Cos were out of the black and into the red

So give us this day our daily bread

In a northern industrial town



But its not leeds or manchester

Liverpool, sheffield, nor glasgow

Its not newcastle-on-tyne. its belfast

Its just a northern industrial town



Merry christmas, war is over

In a northern industrial town