Lucky

C'mon, let me see y'all

He met the world as a Dalkeith boy
Raised from a shaft at Monktonhall
In a well oiled cage
That locked away his dreams
An eighty-five veteran face from the gallery
A ghost from the civil war in the family
He stood his ground on the picket line
'Til all that he was left with
Were his father's cough
And his mother's eyes
That would hold a tear
For the very first time
When the government they took his job away
Now fist in hand he'll stand in line
Declare his name and mark his time
To some the only proof that they're alive

Haddington!

He could have been you
He could have been me
He could have been anybody
But he was born lucky
He could have been you
He could have been me
He could have been anybody
But he was born lucky
Lucky
C'mon

He made his first down payment
On a sharp Italian suit
He sewed razor blades into the lapels
See him sweating on the dance floor
Coal dust oozing out of every pore
A hard man with a hard life
That's a story that he'll tell you
That at Easter Road till his throat is raw
On a Saturday, he knows the score
Till the whistle blows and
The tempers make their colours fade away

He could have been you
He could have been me
He could have been anybody
But he was born lucky
He could have been you
He could have been me
He could have been anybody
But he was born lucky
Lucky

C'mon then

On the helipads at Aberdeen
Bound for platforms drilling oil rich seas
Where the trawlers are getting fewer every year
By the furnaces at Ravenscraig
By the padlocks holding John Brown's gates
In the deserts, in the fields of South Armagh
Where the poppies grow
Behind the Hampden roar
Behind the drums in Genoa
On the deck that rides a South Atlantic swell
Born to fight out of the tightest corner
You can bet on him with the odds against you
They'll not put him down
No matter how they try

Oh he could have been you
Could have been me
He could have been anybody
But he was born lucky

He could have been you
Could have been me
He could have been anybody
But he was born lucky

He could have been you
Could have been me
Could have been anybody
But he was born lucky

He could have been you
Could have been me
Could have been anybody
But he was born lucky

Lucky Lucky
Anybody Anybody
Born lucky
Born lucky
Lucky

Could have been lucky
Could have been lucky
Lucky
Lucky

You were all born lucky
'S encouraging lucky

Thank you

And so
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