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Brian McNeill - Fighter lyrics
One evening as I walked along the bonny banks o' Clyde I fell in wi' an old man, doon by the waterside Our talk was of the days in the factories and yards When the fighting men of Glasgow were the hardest of the hard Oor talk was of the heroes, of Maxton and McShane And would the city ever see the likes o' them again He told me he was sure there was still fighting to be done But we wouldn't see the fighters till the battle had begun To hear the old man talking took me back across the years To the hard, hungry thirties in a city full o' tears When a wee man from the Gorbals was the victor and the king The toast of every company, the champion o' the ring Benny Lynch came up the hard way, at fifty bob a fight With his eyes upon the glory till the whisky killed the light And in the streets and tenements you'd hear the people tell How Benny Lynch's victories belonged to them as well The whistling of the wind brought another man to mind A different kind of fighter who was born before his time Hugh Roberton believed that to go to war was wrong And against the world's opinion he refused to change his song He was the city's Orpheus, he gave the world a choir He forged a song for Glasgow out of gentleness and fire And when they tried to silence him he fought with all his might With the dignity and courage of a man who would not fight Now the song that comes from Glasgow says the city's raw and rough And standing by the Clyde I knew the song was true enough But a sound came o'er the river, the beating o' a drum From the Gorbals that they tore down just to build another slum It beat upon my heart and told me never to forget That we're waiting for the fighter that will come from Glasgow yet We'll know him by his courage, for he'll never give an inch With the dignity of Roberton and the guts of Benny Lynch |
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