《The Lingan Strike》歌词

[00:00:21] We're all the way from Lanarkshire we’re thirty hardy men

[00:00:25] And we've crossed the bold Atlantic to the shores of Cape Breton

[00:00:28] They told us there'd be honest work there's scarce of that at home

[00:00:32] But today we lay our tools down as if that coal was stone

[00:00:36] As if that coal was stone

[00:00:41] For Lingan we were headed boys and thought we had it made

[00:00:45] A rich seam lay in waiting for our skilled and eager trade

[00:00:49] But just before we landed well the story it came 'round

[00:00:52] That a hundred solid local men would not go underground

[00:00:56] Would not go underground

[00:01:00] And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone

[00:01:03] But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong

[00:01:07] The right man from the wrong

[00:01:12] The tale was too familiar-we'd been through the same at home

[00:01:16] Where a man could labour years and still be cast out on his own

[00:01:20] If ever he should fall sick or be injured in the mine

[00:01:24] It's as if he'd never given of his breath or of his time

[00:01:27] His breath or of his time

[00:01:31] And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone

[00:01:34] But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong

[00:01:38] The right man from the wrong

[00:02:01] We'd rather make it empty-handed back across the sea

[00:02:05] Than rob our Gaelic brothers in their fight for dignity

[00:02:09] They say a hungry belly can cloud a man's resolve

[00:02:13] But sharp as tacks we saw our brothers' backs against the wall

[00:02:17] Their backs against the wall

[00:02:20] And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone

[00:02:24] But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong

[00:02:27] The right man from the wrong

[00:02:30] Yes here we are but poor men three thousand miles and oh

[00:02:34] We can see as clear as day how close we are to home

[00:02:38] How close we are to home