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Don't Say Goodbye At First Light

from Headscarves & Hurricanes by Joe Solo

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Rayner's was rammed to the rafters
Full of fisher boys in from the sea
Midst the pints and the fights and the laughter
There was Marco, and Micky and me
Got Settling Day pay in my pocket
And new cowboy boots on my feet
At the pawn shop I bought back your locket
So meet me on Road, top of Manchester Street

Chorus:
Three Day Millionaires on a Friday
And skint by a Sunday night
I sail on the tide Monday morning
Just don't say goodbye at first light

There's many a mate of mine gone now
Lost in that bitter black hell
But in the way you get used to hard living
You get used to hard dying as well
Lost Tony and Dave on the Finbarr
And when the Ross Cleveland went down
It made three in a week
That we lost to the deep
There weren't a dry eye in this town

(Chorus)

So don't you wave at the window
And I won't take a penny to sea
We'll scramble our coins on the corner
Marco, and Micky and me
I'll be back with my pay in my pocket
And I won't want to spend it alone
It's three weeks for me
At the whim of the sea
But your faith will carry me home

(Chorus)

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from Headscarves & Hurricanes, released November 26, 2018
Joe Solo

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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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