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Shirt of Blue - The Men They Couldn't Hang

Hey now Tommy have you got new Shirt

Is it's color a fine bright blue

Has your mother sent you off to your school

From the street with the pretty view

And shall we wrestle in the old school yard

Like the other children do

You can scuff your boots you can tear your hands

And I'll rip that shirt off you

Hey now Tommy since you moved away

They've taken our town and they've made it new

Now there stands a chemical plant

Where the cherry orchards grew

And I married Lucy from the back of our class

Who once wrote letters to you

We've got kids and we send them to school

From the street with the pretty view

Oh and your shirt of blue

Oh and your shirt of blue

Maybe Tommy we grew up too quick

From the fields with the flowers strewn

From a butterfly stick to a baton and a brick

Changing uniforms far too soon

Hey now Tommy shall we meet again

In the morning wet with dew

Meet at the gates of the colliery

You in your shirt of blue

And shall we wrestle in the muddy patch

Like the other poor men do

We can scuff our boots we can tear our hands

And I'll rip that shirt off you

Oh and your shirt of blue

Oh and your shirt of blue

Or maybe Tommy we grew up too quick

From the fields with the flowers strewn

From a butterfly stick to a baton and a brick

Changing uniforms far too soon

Oh and your shirt of blue

Oh and your shirt of blue

Oh and your shirt of blue

Oh and your shirt of blue