By Randall Stephen Hall ©
A poem and song. Just click to play . . .
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I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.
I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.
At least that’s what they’d love to call me
It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.
I’m working with friends and relations.
I’m working with friends and relations.
All nations are working down here.
It’s the strangest old boatyard that you’ve ever seen
For the boats we are building
Are so bloody weird.
There’s many a colour around me.
There’s many a language i’ve heard.
They hammer and bang, they saw and they weld
But there’s nothing they make that’s absurd.
For no one is grabbing for money.
No one is grabbing for power.
For the boats we are building are so strange and new
Have you seen the time it’s nearly the hour?
And no one’s a slave in this boatyard
For no one is purchasing fear.
Protection can run for the shadows.
We’ve a new manifesto this year.
All women and men are equal.
All islanders under one sun.
For the S.S. Sectarian broke on these rocks
And their crew, well their race
Is so nearly run.
I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.
I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.
At least that’s what they’d love to call me.
It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.
Stephen Stiofán is a northern Irish artist
Obviously not written about Harland & Wolfe!