Shipbuilding Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lunaspie 

Cover art for Shipbuilding lyrics by Elvis Costello

As ever with him,a many layered song,with an air of universality to it.The Falklands yes,but also WW 1,where the troops would be home from France 'by Christmas',from a conflict partly engendered by the Dreadnaught shipbuilding race with Germany in the early 1900s.