| The Specials – Ghost Town Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Stuck this on tonight cos the town does feel like a ghost town - pubs and clubs have shut down and no-one has a job - exactly like the Eighties. | |
| Rancid – Harry Bridges Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Made a couple of corrections. Bloody Thursday was 5th July 1934, so corrected that from July 6th to 5th. Also changed Eddie lost his home to wife, as I'm 99% sure that's the actual lyrics. It also makes Eddie's situation more horrible - his life fell apart after he was laid off. It's a situation that rings true across the industrial world. I may not be in Flint, but my city (Dundee, Scotland) is similar, when the engineering and manufacturing moved out, the 'kit' moved in. Since the late 1980's loads of firms have left - first Levi and Timex, then 'the cash' - NCR* - now only Michelin remain. But as I said, it could be anywhere, big employers go where labour is cheaper and leave devestation in their wake. For more info on Bloody Thursday ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike *NCR make cash machines/ATMs, almost all of Europe's cash machines were made in Dundee at one point. |
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