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My Westferry Sweetheart

from Man The Lifeboats EP & Extras by Man The Lifeboats

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It's 4am and I'm somewhere in London
I can't see the pavement for the trees
I'm aiming for somewhere in the middle
Of the gutters and the balconies

Drink is the curse of the worker
And work is the curse of the drunk
I think I'm going to fall by the wayside
But of you that I would never have thunk

I had a sweetheart who lived down on Westferry Road
On the banks of the Victorian Thames
She said take me, I'm fine I've just had a little wine
And you know how the story ends

It's 6am and I'm f****** freezing
Nobody’s coming out to play
It's just me and my random ambitions
And the very cold light of the day

All this brinkmanship and bravado
This diet of whisky and pills
Oh how did we end up in Mudchute?
When we were aiming for the Hollywood Hills

I had a sweetheart who lived down on Westferry Road
On the banks of the Victorian Thames
She said take me, I'm fine I've just had a little wine
And you know how the story ends

Oh my Westferry Sweetheart
Oh my Westferry girl
Oh my Amelia Earhart
Let's take off around the world
Oh my Westferry Sweetheart
Oh my Westferry girl
Oh my Amelia Earhart
Let's take off around the world

I had a sweetheart who lived down on Westferry Road
On the banks of the Victorian Thames
She said take me, I'm fine I've just had a little wine
And you know how the story ends

Oh my Westferry Sweetheart
Oh my Westferry girl
Oh my Westferry Sweetheart

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from Man The Lifeboats EP & Extras, released June 18, 2018
Music by Man The Lifeboats
Lyrics by Rich Quarterman
Produced by Ed Ripley
Engineered by Simon Trought & Sam Beer
Recorded at Soup Studios on the Lightship 95
Mastered by Andy 'Hippy' Baldwin at Metropolis, London

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Man The Lifeboats London, UK

Man The Lifeboats play raucous, upbeat folk music, they craft songs with big choruses that tell stories. Songs with straight- up lyrics, pounding bass lines, lilting mandolin and fiddle melodies and stomping beats,

Man The Lifeboats have cultivated a sound that would not be out of place at a party at the end of the world.
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