BELFAST CHILD

Text : Simple Minds
Musik: Traditional arranged by Simple Minds
Interpret   : Simple Minds
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When my love said to me
Meet me down by the Gallow Tree
For it's sad news I bring
About this old town and all
That it's suffering
Some say troubles are abound
Some day soon they're going to pull
the old town down
One day we'll return here
When the Belfast Child sings again
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Brothers, sisters where are you now
As I look for you
Right through the crowd
For all my life here I have spent
With my faith in God and church and
The government
Some say troubles are abound
Some day soon they're going to pull
The old town down
One day we'll return here
When the Belfast Child sings again
When the Belfast Child sings again
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Come back Billy, won't you come on home
Come bnack Mary, you've been away so long
The street are empty
And your mother's gone
The girls are crying
And it's been oh so long
And your father's calling come on home
Won't you come on home
Come on home
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Come back people
You've been gone a while
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And the war is raging
Through the Emerald Isle
But that's flesh and blood man
That's flesh and blood
The girls are crying
But all's not lost
The street are empty
'cause the streets are cold
Won't you come on home
Won't yop come on home
The streets are empty... life goes on
One day we'll return here
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When the Belfast Child sings again
When the Belfast Child sings again