Barbara Dickson - The Shipyard Apprentice [INTRO:] C [VERSE 1:] G C G I was born in the shadow of a Fairfield crane Dm F C And the blast of a freighter's horn G F C Was the very first sound that reached my ears Dm F G On the morning I was born Dm As I lay and I listened to the shipyard sounds F G C Coming out of the unknown G F C I was lulled to sleep by a mother tongue Dm F G That was to be my own [VERSE 2:] C G Before I grew to one year old Dm F C I heard the sirens scream G F C As a city watched in the blacked-out night Dm F G A wandering searchlight beam Dm And then one day I awoke and rose F G C To my first day of peace G F C And I learned that the battle to stay alive Dm F G Was never going to cease [VERSE 3:] C G And I sat in the school from nine to four Dm F C And I dreamed of the world outside G F C Where the riveters and the platers watch Dm F G Their ships slip to the Clyde Dm Where the girls are placing stone on stone F G C And can watch his Labourer's Row G F C My time will come to walk with them Dm F G In the land I love to know [VERSE 4:] C G And then one day when they set me free Dm F C I'll be walking like a man G F C Wi' my purses weighted in my boots Dm F G In the shadow o'er the clan Dm And the oil and the grease will stain my skin F G C Forever on my hands G F C A living sign that I've been set free Dm F G That I've become a man
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