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Ghosts (Faulkner) Produced by Phil Cunningham

from Speakers' Corner by Eric Faulkner

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A look back at the demise of the shipbuilding industry and the effect Thatcher's policies had on the UK's working class families.

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GHOSTS

They’ve called in the suits from Bloomsbury Way
To sort out the mess of the Thatcherite days
When the profit’s God, divided we will fall
It’s dead on The Clyde, it’s quiet on The Tyne
The whole dock’s dry no overtime
We’ve got our cards, they’ve sent us home today

So tell me, who can build? Who can sail?
Who can launch a ship with no name?
The ghosts of our ships sailing on the tide

Do they think they can better the toil and the sweat?
Of my faither, his brothers and all the rest
They may as well tear the whole thing down
But you all bought the lie and you all missed the catch
But my weans want this and my weans want that
I’ll send the bill down to Dulwich Town

So tell me, who can build? Who can sail?
Who can launch a ship with no name?
The ghosts of our ships sailing on the tide

So if I meet the suits from Bloomsbury way
Tell you what they’ll officially receive from me
They’ll get my boot right up their poverty

So tell me, who can build? Who can sail?
Who can launch a ship with no name?
The ghosts of our ships sailing on the tide
The ghosts of our ships sailing on the tide
The ghosts of our ships sailing on the tide

© Eric Faulkner

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from Speakers' Corner, track released September 28, 2017
Words & Music: Faulkner

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Eric Faulkner UK

Multi-instrumentalist Eric Faulkner has been writing, singing and performing music for more than 50 years, since playing viola with the Edinburgh School Orchestra.
His musical skills have taken him to the top of the charts in UK, America, Japan and Australia and to high profile political and acoustic festivals throughout the world.
You will hear songs recorded over the years until present day.
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