Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues

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[00:00]Artist: Pogues
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[00:02.00] Album: The Best Of The Pogues
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[00:03.00] Title: Thousands Are Sailing
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[00:19.00] The island it is silent now
[00:23.68] But the ghosts still haunt the waves
[00:26.88] And the torch lights up a famished man
[00:31.59] Who fortune could not save
[00:34.74] Did you work upon the railroad?
[00:38.91] Did you rid the streets of crime?
[00:42.76] Were your dollars from the "White House"?
[00:46.76] Were they from the "Five and Dime"?
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[00:50.42] Did the old songs taunt or cheer you?
[00:54.33] And did they still make you cry?
[00:58.14] Did you count the months and years?
[01:01.84] Or did your teardrops quickly dry?
[01:05.64] Ah, No, says he 'twas not to be
[01:10.05] On a coffin ship I came here
[01:13.30] And I never even got so far
[01:17.56] That they could change my name
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[01:20.86] Thousands are sailing
[01:25.21] Across the Western Ocean
[01:28.97] To a land of opportunity
[01:32.78] That some of them will never see
[01:36.58] Fortune prevailing
[01:40.40] Across the Western Ocean
[01:44.23] Their bellies full
[01:46.41] And their spirits free
[01:48.21] They'll break the chains of poverty
[01:51.76] And they'll dance
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[01:53.27] In Manhattan's desert twilight
[02:07.03] In the death of afternoon
[02:10.51] We stepped hand in hand on Broadway
[02:14.64] Like the first man on the moon
[02:18.84] And "The Blackbird" broke the silence
[02:22.69] As you whistled it so sweet
[02:26.26] And in Brendan Behan's footsteps
[02:30.46] I danced up and down the street
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[02:34.05] Then we said goodnight to Broadway
[02:37.85] Giving it our best regards
[02:41.71] Tipped our hats to Mister Cohan
[02:45.47] Dear old Times Square's favourite bard
[02:49.08] Then we raised a glass to J.F.K.
[02:53.68] And a dozen more besides
[02:56.98] When I got back to my empty room
[03:01.29] I suppose I must have cried
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[03:04.50] Thousands are sailing
[03:08.88] Again across the ocean
[03:12.56] Where the hand of opportunity
[03:16.46] Draws tickets in a lottery
[03:20.07] Postcards we're mailing
[03:24.08] Of sky-blue skies and oceans
[03:27.88] From rooms the daylight never sees
[03:31.80] Where lights don't glow on Christmas trees
[03:36.36] But we dance to the music
[03:37.99] And we dance
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[04:12.87] Thousands are sailing
[04:16.72] Across the Western Ocean
[04:20.48] Where the hand of opportunity
[04:24.49] Draws tickets in a lottery
[04:28.49] Where e'er we go, we celebrate
[04:31.76] The land that makes us refugees
[04:35.52] From fear of Priests with empty plates
[04:39.42] From guilt and weeping effigies
[04:42.92] But we dance to the music
[04:44.52] And we dance
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