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Billy Bragg - A New England - lyrics

Name A NEW ENGLAND
Interpret Billy Bragg
Jahr 1983
Schreib"r Bragg
I was twentyone years when I wrote this song
I'm twentytwo now, but I won't be for long
People ask me when will you grow up to be a man
But all the girls I loved at school are already pushing prams
I loved you then as I love you still
'Tho I put you on a pedastal, they put you on the pill
I don't feel bad about letting you go
I just feel bad about letting you know
I don't want to change the world
I'm not looking for a new England
I'm just looking for another girl
I loved the words you wrote to me
But that was bloody yesterday
I can't survive on what you send
Everytime you need a friend
I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but that were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardare?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

Billy Bragg - Birds & Ships - lyrics

The birds are singing in your eyes today
Sweet flowers blossom in your smile
The wind and sun are in the words you say
Where might your lonesome lover be?
Birds maybe singing in my eyes today
Sweet flowers blossom when I smile,
But my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild,
My sweetheart rides a ship on the sea
Words: woody guthrie - music: billy bragg 1997

Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings - lyrics

You and I are victims of a love
That lost a lot in the translation
When I think of all the time that I spent
Sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation
Of you giving in and us living in sin
A hot day, the smell of hairspray
And the sound of a shower running softly
Its things like this that remind me of how I felt
The first time you came back for coffee
The way you took it amazed me
Walking in the park, kissing in the dark
And my head against your pillow
Late at night a lover sings
Adam and eve are finding out all about love
I say adam and eve are finding out all about love
There is no real substitute
For a ball struck squarely and firmly
And youre the kind of girl who wants to
Open up the bottle of pop
Too early in the journey
Our love went flat just like that
It doesnt matter the colour of the car
But what goes on beneath the bonnet
Is there a flag that flies above your heart
And is my name writ there upon it
Wedding cake and toothache
Equals love and pain
Walking in the park, kissing on the carpet
And your tights around your ankles
Late at night a lover thinks of these things
Adam and eve are finding out all about love
I say adam and eve are finding out all about love
Adam and eve are finding out all about
Adam and eve are finding out all about love
Teresa and steve are finding out all about love

Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting To Happen - lyrics

Ive always been impressed with a girl
Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well
Thats the way I am, heaven help me
He said, we dont like peace camapigners round here
As he nailed another one to the wall
And thats what gets me in trouble, heaven help me
Goodbye and good luck to all the rubbish that youve spoken
Goodbye and good luck to all the promises
Youve broken
Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion
Youre an accident waiting to happen
There you are standing at the bar
And youre giving me grief about the ddr
And that chip on your choulder gets bigger as you
Get older
One of these night youre gonna get caught,
Itll give you a pregnant pause for thought
Youre a dedicated swallower of fascism
Time up and time out
For all the liberties youve taken
Time up and time out for all the friends that
Youve foresaken
If you choose to waste away like death is back in fashion
Youre an accident waiting to happen
And my sins are so unoriginal
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheeps clothing
In this carnival of carnivores,
Heaven help me

Billy Bragg - Airline To Heaven - lyrics

Theres an airline plane
Flies to heaven every day
Past them pearly gates
If you want to ride this train
Have your ticket in your hand
Before it is too late
If the world looks wrong
And your moneys spent and gone
And your friend has turned away
You can get away to heaven
On this aeroplane
Just bow your head and pray.
Thems got ears let them hear
Thems got eyes let them see
Turn your eyes to the lord of the skies
Take that airline plane
It will take you home again.
Yes, take you home again.
Yes, to your home beyond the skies.
Well, a lot of people guess
Some say no and some say yes
Will it take some and leave some behind?
But you will surely know
When to the airport go
To leave this world behind
Oh, a lot of speakers speak
And a lot of preachers preach
When you lay their salary on the line
But to bow your head and pray
Is the only earthly way
That you can fly to heaven on time.
That you can reach heaven on time.
Your ticket you obtain
On this heavenly airline plane
You leave your sins behind
You have got to take this flight
Might be daytime, might be night,
But you cant see your way if youre blind
Words: woody guthrie (1939) -
Music: jay bennett/jeff tweedy (1997)
Jay bennett: 12-string acoustic slide guitars, backing vocal, shakers, saw, claps
John stirratt: backing vocal, claps
Jeff tweedy: vocal, acoustic guitar, mellotrons, claps

Billy Bragg - All You Fascists - lyrics

Im gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised
The people in this world are getting organized
Youre bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us this one thing I know
Your poll tax and jim crow and greed have got to go
Youre bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose
All of you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All of you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
Youre bound to lose! you fascists!
Bound to lose
People of every colour marching side by side
Marching cross these fields where a million fascists died
Youre bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose
Im going into this battle, and take my union gun
Well end this world of slavery before this battles won
Youre bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose
Words: woody guthrie (1942) - music: billy bragg (1997)

Billy Bragg - A Pict Song - lyrics

Rome never looks where she treads
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts and our heads
And rome never hears when we bawl
Her sentries pass on -- that is all
And we gather behind them in hordes
And plot to reconquer the wall
With only our tongues for our swords
For we are the little folk -- we!
Too little to love or to hate
Leave us alone and youll see
That we can bring down the state
Mistletoe killing an oak
Rats gnawing cables in two
Moths making holes in a cloak
How they must love what they do!
Yes -- and we little folk too
We are as busy as they
Working our works out of view
Watch, and youll see it some day
No indeed! we are not strong
But we know of peoples that are
Yes and well guide them along
To smash and destroy you in war
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves
But you -- you will die of the shame
And then we will dance on your graves
We are the worm in the wood!
We are the rot at the root!
We are the taint in the blood!
We are the thorn in the foot!
Rudyard kipling

Billy Bragg - Aginst Th' Law - lyrics

Its aginst th law to walk, its aginst th law to talk
Its aginst th law to loaf, its aginst th law to work
Its aginst th law to read, its aginst th law to write
Its aginst th law to be a black, brown or white
Everthings aginst th law
Im a low pay daddy singing th high price blues
Its aginst th law to eat, its aginst th law to drink
Its aginst th law to worry, its aginst th law to think
Its aginst th law to marry or try to settle down
Its aginst th law to ramble like a bum from town to town
Everthings aginst th law
Im a low pay daddy singing th high price blues
Its aginst th law to come, its aginst th law to go
Its aginst th law to ride, its aginst th law to roll
Its aginst th law to hug, its aginst th law to kiss
Its aginst th law to shoot, its aginst th law to miss
Everthings aginst th law
Im a low pay daddy singing th high price blues
Its aginst th law to gamble, its aginst th law to roam
Its aaginst th law to organize or try to build a home
Its aginst th law to sing, its aginst th law to dance
Its aginst th law to tell you all th trouble on my hands
Everthing in winston-salem is aginst th law
Im a low pay daddy singin th high price blues
Words: woody guthrie (1947) - music: billy bragg (1995)

Billy Bragg - Another Man's Done Gone - lyrics

Sometimes I think Im gonna lose my mind
But it dont look like I ever do
I loved so many people everywhere I went
Some too much, others not enough
I dont know, I may go down or up or anywhere
But I feel like this scribbling might stay
Maybe if I hadnt of seen so much hard feelings
I might not could have felt other peoples
So when you think of me, if and when you do,
Just say, well, another mans done gone
Well, another mans done gone
Words: woody guthrie - music: billy bragg

Billy Bragg - Bad Penny - lyrics

I have a letter from her
When she worked for the womans realm
And all the things she promised me
She promised herself as well
She said, I want my freedom
And ran off along the beach
Its hard to love a girl so near
Yet so far out of reach
She came back when the tide came in
And introduced her friend to me
She said, dont ring while he is here
And gave me back my poetry
She expected me to understand
As shes always done this before
And now she asks me
Why dont you send me poems anymore?
And she steals more than she buys
You can see it in her eyes
And shell come back as soon as shes ready
Shes a bad penny
Then she comes back and asks me
To sing all her favourite songs
As if shes never been away
As if shes done nothing wrong
But Ive come to the conclusion
That she doesnt realise a thing
And she probably still thinks I love her
And she doesnt know that its a sin
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