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We Sail Our Castles
06:17
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We Sail Our Castles
In anticipation
We catch a steam train to
New Holland Pier Station
In the mist and the rain
Then we roll down the gangway
Next ferry is ours
As dockers load passengers
Fruit, veg and flowers
We sail our castles
We are fearless and free
We are sailing for freedom
Sweet liberty
Liberty
Come see the steam engine
Turn huge paddles round
Then out on the Humber
We sight the Old Town
Past ships on the river
St Andrew's Dock
There's Trinity Church tower
Behind South Lock
We sail our castles
We are fearless and free
We are sailing for freedom
Sweet liberty
Liberty
Victoria Pier
Nelson Street Toilets
De La Pole statue
Fruit Market barrows across Humber Street
King Billy, Ye Old Bluebell
In Market Place
Then Hepworth's Arcade
(Tobacconist's chocolate and joke shop are treats)
Land of Green Ginger
Whitefriargate
Paragon Street
Then it's milk and biscuits in Hammonds cafe
Beverley Bar buses in
Ferens Way and
Holderness Road then a
Water chute ride in East Park
And Away!
That's our day.
In our day.
Two million before us
Have come here this way
And many moved on
To make homes in the USA
But others have stayed here
You can tell by our names
And sooner or later we find
We're all just the same when
We sail our castles
We are fearless and free
We are sailing for freedom
Sweet liberty
Liberty
When Dad was steam trawling
The cold Arctic sea
Mrs Kerridge and Rhonda
And my mam and me
We would take paddle steamers
These memories now sinking
So I sing of The Wingfield
The Tattershall and The Lincoln
We sail our castles
We are fearless and free
We are sailing for freedom
Sweet liberty
Liberty
In Liberty Lane
Freetown Way
With Sir John Hotham
William Wilberforce
The Lazarus Hotel
John Godber
Amy Johnson
The Watersons
Mick Ronson
Freedom Festival
We're a City of Culture
A city of subculture
We are Hull
Sweet liberty
C Dez Allenby 2016
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1968
05:02
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1968
Flower Power, innocence
There was something in the air
Like the smoke of marijuana
Love and music everywhere
This was the time to celebrate
Perhaps to meditate
Well it was 1968
And I was there
Vietnam
Black Power, Civil Rights
Revolution in the air
People standing proud for justice
Uprising everywhere
Like there was no time to wait
No time to hesitate
Well it was 1968
And we were there.
With Martin Luther King, with Stokely Carmichael
With neither Washington nor Moscow
We believed life could be fair
With no leaders and no strategies
We protested everywhere
We knew that we could liberate
Through our power to demonstrate
Well it was 1968
And we were there
In Columbia, the Prague Spring, Nanterre and universities around the world
In the name of law and order
Came repression everywhere
Young people were astonished
By the force that came to bear
We knew the power of the state
As it moved to dominate us
It was 1968
And we were there
In Chicago, Prague, Warsaw,
In Biafra, Mexico City and Grosvenor Square
We stand for freedom, peace, equality
For a world in need of care
Our many gains and all our losses
Only make us more aware
That we still we have to agitate
To try to help this world cooperate
It's just like in like 1968
And we are here
Still here
Though some have passed
There are young ones now
And we are clear that
We still we have to agitate
To try to help this world cooperate
It's just like like 1968
And we are here
c Dez Allenby 2017
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