Billy Bragg - Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985) Lyrics

Lyrics Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985) - Billy Bragg



I was a miner
I was a docker
I was a railway man
Between the wars
I raised a family
In times of austerity
With sweat at the foundry
Between the wars
I paid the union and as times got harder
I looked to the government to help the working man
But they brought prosperity down at the armoury
We're arming for peace my boys!
Between the wars
I kept the faith and I kept voting
Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
For theirs is a land with a wall around it
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Theirs is a land of hope and glory
Mine is the green field and the factory floor
Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
And mine is the peace we knew
Between the wars
Call up the craftsmen
Bring me the draughtsmen
Build me a path from cradle to grave
And I'll give my consent
To any government
That does not deny a man a living wage
Go find the young men never to fight again
Bring up the banners from the days gone by
Sweet moderation
Heart of this nation
Desert us not, we are
Between the wars



Writer(s): Billy Bragg


Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
Album Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
date of release
06-03-2006

1 Jeane (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
2 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
3 The Cloth (1)
4 The Milkman of Human Kindness
5 To Have and to Have Not
6 Richard
7 A New England
8 The Man in the Iron Mask
9 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
10 Lovers Town Revisited
11 Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
12 Love Lives Here
13 Speedway Hero
14 Loving You Too Long
15 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version)
16 The Cloth (2)
17 The Man in the Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
18 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
19 Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
20 It Says Here
21 Love Gets Dangerous
22 The Myth of Trust
23 From a Vauxhall Velox
24 The Saturday Boy
25 Island of No Reurn
26 St. Swithin's Day
27 Like Solders Do
28 This Guitar Says Sorry
29 Strange Things Happen
30 A Lover Sings
31 It Must Be A River
32 Won't Talk About It
33 Talking Wag Club Blues
34 You Got The Power
35 The Last Time
36 Back To The Old House
37 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
38 Which Side Are You On
39 It Says Here (Alternative Version)
40 Between the Wars
41 The World Turned Upside Down
42 Greetings to the New Brunette
43 Train Train
44 The Marriage
45 Ideology
46 Levi Stubbs' Tears
47 Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
48 There Is Power in a Union
49 Help Save the Youth of America
50 Wishing the Days Away
51 The Passion
52 The Warmest Room
53 The Home Front
54 Sin City
55 Deportees
56 There Is Power In a Union (Instrumental)
57 The Tracks of My Tears
58 Wishing the Days Away (Alternative Version)
59 The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
60 Greetings To the New Brunette (Demo)
61 A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
62 Only Bad Signs
63 Hold the Fort
64 The Internationale
65 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
66 The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
67 Blake's Jerusalem
68 Nicaragua Nicarguita
69 The Red Flag
70 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
71 Introduction (Live)
72 Help Save the Youth of America (Live)
73 Think Again (Live)
74 Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live)
75 Days Like These (DC Remix)
76 To Have and to Have Not - Live
77 There is Power In a Union (With the Pattersons) [Alternative Version]
78 Joe Hill
79 This Land Is Your Land
80 Never Cross a Picket Line
81 A Change Is Gonna Come
82 A Miner's Life
83 From a Vauxhall to a Velox (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
84 The Marriage (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
85 It Says Here (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
86 Which Side Are You On (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
87 The Saturday Boy (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
88 The Milkman of Human Kindness (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
89 A Lover Sings (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
90 There Is Power In a Union (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
91 Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
92 To Have and to Have Not (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)




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