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Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt



     
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Is it worth it?
A new winter coat
And shoes for the wife
And a bicycle
On the boy's birthdayIt's just a rumor
That was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuildingWell, I ask you
The boy said, "Dad
They're going to take me to task
But I'll be home by Christmas"It's just a rumor
That was spread around town
Somebody said
That someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed
In the results of their shipbuildingWith all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearlsIt's just a rumor

That was spread around town
A telegram for a picture postcard
Within weeks
They'll be reopening the shipyard
And notifying the next of kin once againIt's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuildingWith all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls

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Robert Wyatt, born Robert Ellidge, in Bristol on 28 January 1945, is an English musician, and a former member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. As a teenager, he lived with his parents in a fourteen-room Georgian guest-house, Wellington House, in Lydden near Canterbury. Here he was taught the drums by visiting American jazz drummer George Niedorf. In 1962, Wyatt and Niedorf moved to Majorca where they stayed with the poet Robert Graves. The following year, Wyatt returned to England and joined the Daevid Allen Trio with Daevid Allen and Hugh Hopper.

Read more about Robert Wyatt on Last.fm.


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