The 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