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Durham Town Lyrics
[Chorus]
I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leavings gonna get me down.
Back in nineteen forty-four,
I remember Daddy walking out the door.
Mama told me he was going to war, he was leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me.
[Chorus]
When I was a boy, I spent my time,
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne.
Watching all the ships going down the line, they were leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me.
[Chorus]
The last week Mama passed away,
Good-bye, son, was all she'd say.
There's no cause for me to stay, so I'm leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.
[Chorus: x2]
I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leavings gonna get me down.
I remember Daddy walking out the door.
Mama told me he was going to war, he was leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me.
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne.
Watching all the ships going down the line, they were leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me.
Good-bye, son, was all she'd say.
There's no cause for me to stay, so I'm leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.
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Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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On the banks of the River Tyne? In Durham? The Wear, surely..?
@Isambard sounded odd to me too. Remembering daddy going off to war in 1944 seems odd as well: his daddy would have been conscripted years before he remembered him. Whittaker's wikipedia entry doesn't even mention the North East, and he would have been living in Kenya in 1944 so perhaps we can't expect authenticity.
@Isambard sounded odd to me too. Remembering daddy going off to war in 1944 seems odd as well: his daddy would have been conscripted years before he remembered him. Whittaker's wikipedia entry doesn't even mention the North East, and he would have been living in Kenya in 1944 so perhaps we can't expect authenticity.