Island Of No Return letra

Digging all day and digging all night
To keep my foxhole out of sight
Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees
The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze
Fear in my stomach, fear in the sky
I eat my dinner with a weary eye
After all this it won't be the same
Messing around on Salisbury Plain


Pick up your feet, fall in, move out
We're going to a party way down South
Me and the Corporal out on a spree
Damned from here to eternity


I hate this flat land, there's no cover
for sons and fathers and brothers and lovers
I can take the killing, I can take the slaughter
But I don't talk to Sun reporters
I never thought that I would be
Fighting fascists in the Southern Sea
I saw one today and in his hand
Was a weapon that was made in Birmingham


Pick up your feet, fall in, move out
We're going to a party way down South
Me and the Corporal out on a spree
Damned from here to eternity


I wish Kipling and the Captain were here
To record our pursuits for posterity
Me and the Corporal out on a spree
Damned from here to eternity

Billy Bragg - Letras

• A Lover Sings
• A Pic Song
• A Pict Song
• Accident Waiting To Happen
• Aginst Th' Law
• Airline To Heaven
• All You Fascists
• Another Man's Done Gone
• At My Window Sad And Lonely
• Bad Penny
• Between The Wars
• Birds And Ships
• Black Wind Blowing
• Blake's Jerusalem
• Blood Of The Lamb
• Body Of Water
• Brickbat
• California Stars
• California Starts
• Christ For President
• Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
• Days Like These
• Days Like These (U.K. Version)
• Dolphins
• Eisler On The Go
• Everybody loves you babe
• Everywhere
• Feed Of Man
• From A Vauxhall Velox
• From Red To Blue
• Goalhanger
• God's Footballer
• Greetings To The New Brunette
• Greetings To The New Brunette (Shirley)
• Help Save The Youth Of America
• Hesitating Beauty
• Honey I'm A Big Boy Now
• Hoodoo Voodoo
• Hot Rod Hotel
• I Almost Killed You
• I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
• I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
• I Guess I Planted
• I Was Born
• Ideology
• Ingrid Bergman
• Island Of No Return
• It Says Here
• Joe DiMaggio Done It Again
• King James Version
• Levi Stubbs' Tears
• Life With The Lions
• Like Soldiers Do
• Little Time Bomb
• Love Gets Dangerous
• Lovers Town Revisited
• Meanest Man
• Mother Of The Bride
• Moving The Goalposts
• Mr. Love & Justice
• Must I Paint You A Picture?
• My Flying Saucer
• My Youngest Son Came Home Today
• New England
• Nicaragua Nicaraguita
• No One Knows Anymore
• North Sea Bubble
• Northern Industrial Town
• O Freedom
• Old Clash Fan Fight Song
• One By One
• Ontario, Quebec And Me
• Qualifications
• Remember The Mountain Bed
• Richard
• Rotting On Remand
• Rule Nor Reason
• Rumours Of War
• Scholarship Is The Enemy of Romance
• Secret Of The Sea
• Sexuality
• She Came Along To Me
• She's Got A New Spell
• Ship In My Harbour
• Shirley
• Someday, Some Morning, Sometime
• St Swithin's Day
• Stetson Kennedy
• Strange Things Happen
• Sugardaddy
• Sulk
• Tank Park Salute
• Tender Comrade
• Thatcherites
• The Beach Is Free
• The Boy Done Good
• The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
• The Few
• The Fourteenth Of February
• The HomeFront
• The Internationale
• The Man in The Iron Mask
• The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions
• The Marriage
• The Milkman Of Human Kindness
• The Myth Of Trust
• The Only One
• The Passion
• The Price I Pay
• The Prico I Pay
• The Red Flag
• The Saturday Boy
• The Short Answer
• The Space Race Is Over
• The Unwelcome Guest
• The Warmest Room
• The World Turned Upside Down
• There Is Power In A Union
• This Guitar Says Sorry
• To Have And To Have Not
• Trust
• Upfield
• Valentine's Day Is Over
• Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
• Walk Away Renee
• Walk Away Renee (Version)
• Walt Whitman's Niece
• Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
• Which Side Are You On?
• Wish You Were Her
• Wish You Were Her Lyrics
• Wishing The Days Away
• You Woke Up My Neighbourhood