[ti:Streets Of Sorrow Birmingham ] [ar:The Pogues] [al:If I Should Fall From Grace Wi] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six - The Pogues [00:10.16]Oh farewell you streets of sorrow [00:18.35]Oh farewell you streets of pain [00:25.04]I'll not return to feel more sorrow [00:33.22]Nor to see more young men slain [00:39.79]Through the last six years I've lived through terror [00:48.22]And in the darkened streets the pain [00:55.35]Oh how I long to find some solace [01:03.78]In my mind I curse the strain [01:10.81]So farewell you streets of sorrow [01:19.50]And farewell you streets of pain [01:25.81]No I'll not return to feel more sorrow [01:34.75]Nor to see more young men slain [01:49.68]There were six men in Birmingham [01:51.31]In Guildford there's four [01:52.81]That were picked up and tortured [01:54.69]And framed by the law [01:56.06]And the filth got promotion [01:57.50]But they're still doing time [01:59.18]For being Irish in the wrong place [02:01.31]And at the wrong time [02:02.69]In Ireland they'll put you away in the Maze [02:05.96]In England they'll keep you for several long days [02:09.14]God help you if ever you're caught on these shores [02:12.52]And the coppers need someone [02:14.02]And they walk through that door [02:15.52]You'll be counting years [02:17.21]First five, then ten [02:18.96]Growing old in a lonely hell [02:22.08]Round the yard and the stinking cell [02:25.27]From wall to wall, and back again [02:28.71]A curse on the judges, the coppers and screws [02:32.21]Who tortured the innocent, wrongly accused, [02:35.27]For the price of promotion [02:36.71]And justice to sell [02:38.52]May the judged be their judges when they rot down in hell [02:41.64]You'll be counting years [02:43.45]First five, then ten [02:45.45]Growing old in a lonely hell [02:48.14]Round the yard and lousy cell [02:51.45]From wall to wall, and back again [03:09.70]May the whores of the empire lie awake in their beds [03:12.89]And sweat as they count out the sins on their heads [03:16.01]While over in Ireland eight more men lie dead [03:19.26]Kicked down and shot in the back of the head [03:22.39]You'll be counting years [03:23.95]First five, then ten [03:25.64]Growing old in a freezing hell [03:28.77]Round the yard and the lousy cell [03:32.14]From wall and back again [03:35.70]Counting years [03:36.89]First five, then ten [03:38.83]Growing old in a lonely hell [03:41.89]Round the yard and the lousy cell [03:45.08]From wall to wall and back again