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Simple Minds – Belfast Child – 1989

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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 offering
    Some say troubles abound
    Some day soon they’re gonna pull the old town down
    One day we’ll return here,
    When the belfast child sings again

    Brothers sisters where are you now
    As I look for you right through the crowd
    All my life here I’ve spent
    With my faith in God the church and the government
    But there’s sadness abound
    Some day soon they’re gonna pull the old town down

    One day we’ll return here,
    When the belfast child sings again
    When the belfast child sings again

    Some come back billy, won’t you come on home
    Come back mary, you’ve been away so long
    The streets are empty, and your mother’s gone
    The girls are crying, it’s been oh so long
    And your father’s calling, come on home
    Won’t you come on home, won’t you come on home

    Come back people, you’ve been gone a while
    And the war is raging, in the emerald isle
    That’s flesh and blood man, that’s flesh and blood
    All the girls are crying but all’s not lost

    The streets are empty, the streets are cold
    Won’t you come on home, won’t you come on home

    The streets are empty
    Life goes on

    One day we’ll return here
    When the belfast child sings again
    When the belfast child sings again