We've Got Now't Else

Jackie

Good people give ear to me story

Now, pay attention, and none of your lip

For I’ve brought you these lads

And their daddy

Davy

And their daddy

Jackie

Intending to build you’s a ship

Men

Wallsend is wor habitation

It’s the place we was all born and bred

Jackie

And there’s no finer lads in the nation

Men

And none are more gallantly led

Jackie

Let’s get cracking gentlemen, chop chop! We’ve got a ship to build

What’ve we got but the buzzer in the morning?

What’ve we got but the laying of a keel?

Jackie & Men

What’ve we got

Jackie

But the cranes above us soaring?

The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel

What’ve we got

Davy

But the mist upon the river?

Jackie

What’ve we got

Men

But the noise inside the hold?

Jackie & Men

What’ve we got

Jackie

But the arse end of the weather?

Where we work in horizontal rain, and

Jackie, Davy, Men

Shiver in the cold

Jackie & Men

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t else.)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t else.)

Men

What’ve ye got

Jackie

But the singing in the cables?

Men

What’ve ye got

Davy

But the ringing in your ear?

Men

What’ve ye got

Billy

Well you can’t claim you’re disabled

‘Cause the bosses turned the tables

And your rights have disappeared

Jackie & Men

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t else.)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t else.)

Jackie

And what do you get for your politics?

Men

Now’t!

Jackie

What do you get for your vote?

Men

Now’t!

Jackie

Now what have we got at the end of the day?

Men

A great big bloody boat!

Jackie

You’ve got to die of something

It’s written in your fate

You might as well

Die on a Tuesday

And woe betide

You’re late

Men & Jackie

What’ve ye got? (All you men what’s fit and able?)

What’ve ye got? (For the straining in your neck?)

What’ve ye got? (When you’re laid out on the table.)

Men

And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck?

What’ve we got

Tom

But a yard full of big brothers?

Men

What’ve we got?

Tom

But a place to sling me tools?

Men

What’ve we got?

Tom

I can’t wait to tell me mother!

Men

And we’ll teach you plenty other things you’ll never learn in school!

Jackie & Men

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t else.)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t else.)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

What’ve ye got? (What’ve we got?)

You’ve got now’t. (We’ve got now’t.)

We’ve got now’t, we’ve got now’t else...