Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Two-thousand-eighteen Shades Of Bromford - Part 173



Today is Wednesday, the 25th of August 2021.

When the tigers broke free... that was an exciting day at the zoo. Or was it a circus?
I have heard they ate a lot of tiger lilies. Well, that's what the white rabbit said when
it lost its pocket watch...


"Bromford Child"


When my love said to me
Meet me down by the Gallow Tree
For it's sad news I bring
About this old town and all that it's suffering
Some say troubles abound
Some day soon they're gonna pull the old town down
One day we'll return here
When the Bromford Child sings again

Brothers, sisters, where are you now?
As I look for you right through the crowd
All my life here I've spent
With my faith in God, the Church and the Government
Some say troubles abound
Some day soon they're gonna pull the old town down

One day we'll return here
When the Bromford Child sings again

When the Bromford Child sings again

So come back Billy, won't you come on home?
Come back Mary, you've been away so long
The streets are empty, and your mother's gone
The girls are crying, it's been oh so long
And your father's calling, come on home
Won't you come on home? come on home

Come back people, you've been gone a while
And the war is raging, through the Emerald Isle
That's flesh and blood man, that's flesh and blood
All the girls are crying but all's not lost

Well, the streets are empty, the streets are cold
Won't you come on home, won't you come on home?

The streets are empty

Life goes on

One day we'll return here
When the Bromford Child sings again

When the Bromford Child sings again





4 comments:

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    1. How's the situation in Belfast today, some thirty, forty years later?
      Does the Belfast child sing again?

      Simple Minds - Belfast Child

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    2. 251 songs about 129 different cities (and places).

      Second point for Belfast. Belfast climps 40 rangs...
      But nobody should count...

      *** New York IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (including Manhattan IIIII and Brooklyn III and Chelsea I and Harlem I) ***

      Los Angeles IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (including Hollywood IIIIIII)
      Hamburg IIIIIIIIIIIIIII (including St. Pauli III and Wilhelmsburg I and Altona I and Jenfeld I and Bahrenfeld I and Ohlsdorf I and Niendorf I)
      London IIIIIIIII (including Chelsea II and Londinium I and Walthamstow I)
      Berlin IIIIIIII
      Amsterdam IIIIIII
      Bethlehem IIIII
      Memphis IIIII
      San Francisco IIII
      Jerusalem IIII
      Babylon/Babel IIII (Pompeii is in this part of the list so...)
      New Orleans III
      Philadelphia III
      Manchester III
      Detroit III
      Warsaw III
      Budapest II
      Rome II
      Hong Kong II
      Tijuana II
      Paris II
      Houston II
      Acapulco II
      Montréal II
      Seattle II
      Galway II
      Washington II
      Barcelona II
      Belfast II
      Malice I
      San José I
      Scarborough I
      Atlantic City I
      Pompeii I
      Chicago I
      Waterloo I
      Pyongyang I
      Yarmouth I
      Santa Maria Da Feira I
      Berkeley I
      West Palm Beach I
      Cologne I
      Monterey I
      Starkville I
      Odessa I
      Tupelo I
      Leningrad I
      Miami I
      Fribourg I
      Baltimore I
      Montgomery I
      Folsom I
      Perth I
      Sanibel I
      Harrisburg I
      Gloucester I
      Calgary I
      Blackfield I
      Omaha I
      Gainesville I
      Santiago I
      Saint Malo I
      Chernobyl I
      Grevenbroich I
      Brownsville I
      Mason City I
      Benton I
      San Jacinto I
      Cairo I
      Grafton I
      Istanbul I
      Nazareth I
      Aurora I
      Moscow I
      Durango I
      Donkey Town I
      Key West I
      Laredo I
      Durban I
      Bangkok I
      Bowenville I
      Woodstock I
      Shanghai I
      Kalispell I
      El Dorado I
      Gaza I
      Las Vegas I
      Oxford I
      Orléans I
      Kilronan I
      Santa Fe I
      Leicester I
      Saskatoon I
      Singapore I
      Poughkeepsie I
      Twin Falls I
      Greenwich I
      Ottawa I
      Damascus I
      Red Lake I
      Sapokanikan I
      Tokyo I
      Guernica I
      Port I
      Sheffield I
      Skara Brae I
      Grantchester I
      Bingen I
      Columbia I
      Venice I
      Baghdad I
      Marquette I
      Salisbury I
      Birnam I
      Ramada I
      Tulsa I
      Jupiter I
      Putnam I
      Sterling I
      Pittsfield I
      Driftwood I

      Not even really a (real) city or place:
      Jersey III
      California II
      Gomorrah II
      Albion I
      Essex I
      Idaho I
      Atlantis I
      Camelot I

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