{"id":2014,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/yesterdays-men"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"yesterdays-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/yesterdays-men\/","title":{"rendered":"YESTERDAY’S MEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Twas Joey the weasel that gave us the wire
\nWe were closing our factory down
\nThough we didn’t believe and we called him a liar
\nThe redundancy letters came round
\nAs we read them in silence I choked back a tear
\nIt was to believe after twenty odd years<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nFarewell my companions, me friends and me work mates
\nFarewell to the pay days, the pints and the crack
\nFor we gave them our best years, now they’ve paid us back
\nBy making us yesterday’s me, sure as hell, by making us yesterday’s men<\/p>\n

So we said our goodbyes by the factory gate
\nOne cold Friday evening last year
\nAnd I saw it all there in the eyes of me mates
\nThe anger, the sadness, the fear
\nLike our fathers before us we worked there pride
\nNow we fought back the bitterness burning inside<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Now Jenny said she’d give the kids a few bob
\nAfter all sure it is Friday night
\nAh how could I tell her I was out of the job
\nFrom now things were gonna be tight
\nHow well I remember it cut like a knife
\nI was never a day on the dole in my life<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

The machines now are silent, the work bench is bare
\nAnd there’s dust on the factory floor
\nThey’ve boarded the windows and chained up the gate
\nAnd padlocked the factory door
\nNow I’m on the scrap heap and I’m thirty-nine
\nJust one of the hundreds shot down in me prime<\/p>\n

Chorus
\nChorus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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