One Summers Day - The Rumjacks

They married in the civic hall, avoiding all the rigmarole

A prick of a man we liked to call ‘Cock-a-doodled-Andy'

Drank a pint o' ‘truth-be-told', called the bride a filthy moll

There the party lost control & rioted ‘til Sunday

Toward the quay they went, spewed all o’er the pavement

Torched the halls o' Parliament & smashed up all the stores

The crusty invalids, the men, the women, the rusty lids

All played a game o' busty-heads & settled up old scores

Our Fathers never taught us nowt can fall into a fist

Our mothers never told us there’d be DAYS LIKE THIS!

Now we’re screamin' at the coppers with a belly full o piss

What a helluva way to celebrate yer day

Oh I love you so, I hope I get to let you know before they lock my silly arse

away

Oh I love you so, don’t forget to write me tho' & I’ll return to you one

summers day

«No bottles!

No blades allowed» shouted Father Hugh MacLeod

Who kissed his beads, blessed the crowd & rolled upboth his sleeves

Soon I found me on the toes o' Blackie Anderson

Who promised he would put me on me arse before he leaves

He gouged an eye, he took an ear to match the one he took the year

I took away his Mary dear & made her all me own

The right, the left, the hook, he played the fox, I played the chook

And I carved him like a turkey to the bone

Oh I love you so, I hope I get to let you know before they lock my silly arse

away

Oh I love you so, don’t forget to write me tho' & I’ll return to you one

summers day

Oh I love you so, I hope I get to let you know before they lock my silly arse

away

Oh I love you so, don’t forget to write me tho' & I’ll return to you one

summers day

Sticks, stones, broken bones, bleedin' hearts & broken homes

All screamin' for the preacher wi' his holy wine & wafer

Still the pipes o' war howled away & way before thedust had even settled

We were in the mornin' paper

By the Merc’n’tile the mob were near collapse

When Casey barred the door & kicked the head off all the taps

And we pissed away the pain of all the punches and the slaps

'til the wallopers came to sweep us off the bay

Oh I love you so, I hope I get to let you know before they lock my silly arse

away

Oh I love you so, don’t forget to write me tho' & I’ll return to you one

summers day