What Have We Got?

Song What Have We Got?
Artist Sting
Album The Last Ship (Deluxe)

Lyrics

[00:06.150] Good people give ear to me story,
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[00:09.840] Pay attention, and none of your lip,
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[00:13.830] For I've brought you five lads and their daddy,
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[00:18.320] Intending to build ye's a ship.
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[00:23.320] Wallsend is wor habitation,
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[00:27.370] It's the place we was all born and bred.
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[00:32.120] And there's nay finer lads in the nation,
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[00:36.350] And none are more gallantly led.
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[01:10.060] What have we got, but the buzzer in the morning?
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[01:13.290] Aye, and what have we got, but the laying of a keel?
[01:16.660] And what have we got, but the cranes above us soaring?
[01:20.290] The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel?
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[01:24.150] What have we got, but the mist upon the river?
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[01:27.340] Tell me, what have we got, but the noise inside the hold?
[01:30.770] Oh, what have we got, but the arse end of the weather?
[01:34.150] Where we work in horizontal rain, and shiver in the cold.
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[01:38.010] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[01:39.870] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[01:41.320] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.
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[01:45.050] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[01:46.730] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[01:48.600] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.
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[01:52.290] What have ye got, but the singing in the cables?
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[01:55.480] Oh, what have ye got, but the ringing in your ears?
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[01:59.290] Aye, what have ye got, but the telling of the fables?
[02:02.470] And the memories of the ships,
[02:03.520] that we've been building donkey's years.
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[02:06.270] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[02:08.020] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[02:09.510] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.
[02:13.060] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[02:15.000] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[02:16.810] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.
[02:20.110] Aye, you've got to die of something,
[02:22.120] It's written in your fate,
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[02:23.860] Ye may as well die of a Tuesday,
[02:25.610] And woe betide you're late.
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[02:34.850] What have ye got, all you men what's fit and able?
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[02:38.090] What have ye got, for the straining in your neck?
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[02:41.400] What have ye got, when you're laid out on the table?
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[02:44.970] And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck?
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[02:48.600] What have ye got, but the loyalty of brothers?
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[02:51.970] What have ye got, but this union of the dock?
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[02:55.840] What have ye got, a bacon sandwich from your mother?
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[02:59.160] Not a promise of another with the punching of the clock.
[03:02.400] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[03:04.450] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[03:06.330] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.
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[03:09.880] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[03:11.500] Now, what do ye got? (What do we got?)
[03:13.310] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.
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[03:16.860] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[03:18.810] What do ye got? (What do we got?)
[03:20.240] You've got nowt. We've got nowt else.