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1974

I broke my arm in a bombscare,
Running from a bang that wasn’t even there.
This big fat woman stopped and looked around,
and I bounced off her and I hit the ground.
I spent that Christmas with my arm in a sling,
- an angry little turkey with a broken wing.
The device turned out to be a cardboard box -
I nearly wished the bloody thing had gone off.

When the Workers Council put out the lights,
we sat in the shadows on a Saturday night,
in the same seats, round the dead TV,
my mother and my father and my little brother and me -
and we cursed Sunningdale, and Stormont too -
for stealing our right to watch Doctor Who.
(when you’re young, you don’t know what it means,
the house full of candles and Heinz Baked Beans)

CHORUS:
Oh this was in 1974,
with the clowns and the crooks
and the Christian Soldiers,
marching as to war -
marching as to war.

My mother saved pennies in a big glass jar,
like a woman getting ready for a Civil War.
We went down to Central and she caught the train,
with two little boys she could barely contain.
In Barry’s Portrush, we forgot about God -
nobody was Catholic and no-one was Prod.
There’s only one religion in amusement halls -
you walk in with dreams, and walk out with damn all.

CHORUS

Fried sugar and diesel smoke,
broken glass and lukewarm Coke.
A big top in a muddy field,
a beautiful girl hangs by her heels.
From a high wire, she watches the crowds
- the city’s closed minds and open mouths,
eating candy floss on the wild frontier
- she can’t wait to be gone from here.

CHORUS

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