Billy Bold - Hello Sailor

Born in the sight of the Liverpool dock

If it weren’t for the call of the sea

Was the sound of poverty

So they write you down on their social list

Songs of war and girls that don’t exist

And how you can’t be free

Yesterday we were ten years old

Yesterday we were freezing cold

Yesterday you had us bought and sold

But now we are Billy Bold

Must we immigrate or stand and fight?

Troubled times we must unite

Let the chains that bind us be

There’s no need to shout everybody knows

It’s wilted now, our English rose

Let’s storm the last Bastille

But the baton’s hard and the dungeon’s cold

You’re black or white, you’re young or old

Yesterday we did what we were told

But now we are Billy Bold

Yesterday we were ten years old

Yesterday we were freezing cold

Yesterday you had us bought and sold

But now we are Billy Bold

And you hear the drums they roll

Street war must take its toll

For now we are Billy Bold