Island Of No Return Lyrics

Billy Bragg
Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
Island Of No Return
Digging all day and digging all night
To keep my foxhole out of sight
Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees
The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze
Fear in my stomach, fear in the sky
I eat my dinner with a weary eye
After all this it won't be the same
Messing around on salisbury plain


Pick up your feet, fall in, move out
We're going to a party way down south
Me and the corporal out on a spree
Damned from here to eternity


I hate this flat land, there's no cover
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For sons and fathers and brothers and lovers
I can take the killing, i can take the slaughter
But i don't talk to sun reporters
I never thought that i would be
Fighting fascists in the southern sea
I saw one today and in his hand
Was a weapon that was made in birmingham


Pick up your feet, fall in, move out
We're going to a party way down south
Me and the corporal out on a spree
Damned from here to eternity


I wish kipling and the captain were here
To record our pursuits for posterity
Me and the corporal out on a spree
Damned from here to eternity