Dubliners I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool lyrics

I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool by Dubliners

I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool lyrics

I wish I was back in Liverpool, Liverpool town where I 
was born
Where there ain't no trees, no scent of grease, no 
field's of waving corn
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls and the 
black and tan flows free
There's six in a bed by the old pier head and it's 
Liverpool town for me 

'Tis seven long years since I wandered away to sail the 
wild world o'er
Me very first trip on an old steam ship that was bound 
for Baltimore
I was seven days sick and I just couldn't stick that 
bobbin' up and down
So I told them "Jack, you'd better turn back for dear 
old Liverpool town" 

I wish I was back in Liverpool, Liverpool town where I 
was born
Where there ain't no trees, no scent of grease, no 
field's of waving corn
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls and the 
black and tan flows free
There's six in a bed by the old pier head and it's 
Liverpool town for me 

We dug the Mersey tunnel, boys, way back in thirty-
three
Dug an hole in the ground until we found an hold called 
Wallasey
Then the foreman cried "Come on, outside! The roof is 
fallin' down"
While I'm tellin' you, Jack, we all swum back to dear 
old Liverpool town 

I wish I was back in Liverpool, Liverpool town where I 
was born
Where there ain't no trees, no scent of grease, no 
field's of waving corn
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls and the 
black and tan flows free
There's six in a bed by the old pier head and it's 
Liverpool town for me 

There's every race and colour of face, there's every 
kind of name
But the pigeons on the pier head they treat you all the 
same
And if you walk up upon Parlament Street you'll get 
faces black and brown
And I've also seen the orange-green in dear old 
Liverpool town 

I wish I was back in Liverpool, Liverpool town where I 
was born
Where there ain't no trees, no scent of grease, no 
fiel's of waving corn
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls and the 
black and tan flows free
There's six in a bed by the old pier head and it's 
Liverpool town for me