Irish Song Lyrics 
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I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool Stan Kelly / Leon Rosselson 
I wish I was back in Liverpool Liverpool town where I was born Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze No fields of waving corn But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls And the Black and Tan flows free There's six in a bed by the old pier head And it's Liverpool town for me 
'Tis seven long years since I wandered away To sail the wide world o'er Me very first trip on an old steamship That was bound for Baltimore I was seven days sick and I just couldn't stick That bubbling up and down So I told them Jack, you'd better turn back For dear old Liverpool town 
I wish I was back in Liverpool Liverpool town where I was born Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze No fields of waving corn But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls And the Black and Tan flows free There's six in a bed by the old pier head And it's Liverpool town for me 
We dug the Mersey tunnel, boys, way back in '33 Dug an hole in the ground until we found An hole called Wallasey Then the foreman cried: "Come on outside the roof is falling down" Well I'm telling you Jack, we all swam back To dear old Liverpool town 
I wish I was back in Liverpool Liverpool town where I was born Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze No fields of waving corn But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls And the Black and Tan flows free There's six in a bed by the old pier head And it's Liverpool town for me 
There's every race and colour of face There's every kind of name But the pigeons on the pierhead they treat you all the same And if you walk up Upper Parliament Street You'll get faces black and brown And I have also seen them orange and green In dear old Liverpool town 
I wish I was back in Liverpool Liverpool town where I was born Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze No fields of waving corn 
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls And the Black and Tan flows free There's six in a bed by the old pier head And it's Liverpool town for me