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"A Nurse's Life is Full of Woe" is a track by Billy Bragg, from the album Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (2006 Reissue), released 2006. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Billy Bragg.
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To live forever in your stupid dream And face the ignominy that old age brings Looking up in your heart, but I think you know That a nurse's life is full of woe But Jimmy Quail in another town They shift it up and they push you around If you find it’s hard, you should think you so That a nurse's life is full of woe She was in this fetid lie This is not the way that I would choose to die I wish you were ever in my heart And I miss you in heaven to this day And I wonder how you find it out And you're looking up and you’ll lock me out 'Cause you know in your heart if you want to go For a nurse's life is full of woe To live forever in your stupid dream And facе the ignominy that old age brings Looking up in your heart, and you'rе ever so That a nurse's life is full of woe Do you believe any children survive? I wonder if you wanna stay alive And I wonder if you feel this gift If you have to work a thirty-six hour shift But I wonder now when you'll understand When the woman in white comes to take your hand And you put your heart, and I think you know That a nurse's life is full of woe That a nurse's life is full of woe
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