I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool Lyrics - Singles - 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