I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool - T. Duggins

I wish I was back in Liverpool
Liverpool town where I was born
Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze
No fields of waving corn
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls
And the black-and-tan flows free
Where there's six in a bed by the old pierhead
And it's Liverpool town for me

It's ten long years since I went away 
To roam the wide world o'er
My very first trip in an old tramp ship 
That was bound for Baltimore
I was ten days sick, I just couldn't stick 
That bobbing up and down
So I told them, Jack, to turn right back 
To dear old Liverpool town

We built the Mersey tunnel, boys
Way back in 'thirty-three
Dug an 'ole in the ground until we found 
An 'ole called Wallasey
And the foreman cried, Come on outside
The roof is fallin' down
And I'm tellin' you, Jack, we all swam back 
To dear old Liverpool town

There's every race and colour of face 
And every kind of name
But the pigeons on the pierhead 
They'll treat us all the same
If you walk up Upper Parliament Street 
You'll see faces black and brown
And I've also seen the Orange and Green 
In dear old Liverpool town