Martin Simpson《Never Any Good》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.47]You were never any good with money [00:03.36]You couldn't even hold a job [00:06.33]Not steady enough for the office [00:10.02]Not hard enough for the hod [00:12.82]You'd rather be riding your Norton [00:15.35]Or going fishing with your split cane rod [00:18.82]You were never any good with money [00:22.27]You couldn't even hold a job [00:25.24]When your grammar school days were over [00:28.38]It was nineteen-seventeen [00:31.61]And you did the right and proper thing [00:35.24]You were just eighteen [00:37.34]You were never mentioned in dispatches [00:39.93]You never mentioned what you did or saw [00:43.68]You were just another keen young man [00:47.05]In the mud and stink of war [00:50.19]You were never any good with money [00:53.27]You couldn't even hold a job [00:56.15]Not steady enough for the office [00:59.51]Not hard enough for the hod [01:02.29]You'd rather be singing the Pirate King [01:05.11]Or going fishing with your split cane rod [01:08.28]You were never any good with money [01:11.69]You couldn't even hold a job [01:14.50]You came home from the Great War [01:17.58]With the pips of a captain's rank [01:20.59]A German officer's Luger [01:23.26]And no money in the bank [01:25.80]Your family sent you down in the coal mine [01:29.44]To learn to be captain there [01:32.16]But you didn't stand it very long [01:35.34]You needed the light and the air [01:38.20]You were never any good with money [01:41.33]You couldn't even hold a job [01:44.16]Not steady enough for the office [01:47.32]Not hard enough for the hod [01:50.25]You'd rather be watching performers fly [01:53.37]Or fishing with your split cane rod [01:56.01]You were never any good with money [01:59.44]You couldn't even hold a job [02:02.76]When the second war came along [02:05.38]You knew what should be done [02:07.83]You would re-enlist to teach young men [02:11.24]The booby trap and the gun [02:13.84]And they sent you home to Yorkshire [02:17.04]With a crew and a Lewis gun [02:19.66]So you could save your seaside town [02:23.14]From the bombers of the Hun [02:25.64]You were never any good with money [02:28.84]You couldn't even hold a job [02:31.78]Not steady enough for the office [02:34.91]Not hard enough for the hod [02:37.70]You'd rather be finding the nightjar's nest [02:40.86]Going fishing with your split cane rod [02:43.62]You were never any good with money [02:47.02]You couldn't even hold a job [02:49.58]And when my mother came to your door [02:52.81]With a baby in her arm [02:55.75]Her big hurt boy just nine years old [02:59.52]Trying to keep her from harm [03:02.04]If you had been a practical man [03:05.08]You would have been forewarned [03:07.83]You would have seen that it never could work [03:10.80]And I would have never been born [03:18.08]Never Any Good - Martin Simpson [03:37.59]There's no proper work in your seaside town [03:40.69]So you come here looking for a job [03:43.39]You were storeman at the power station [03:46.68]Just before I came along [03:49.68]Nobody talked about how you quit [03:52.36]But I know that's what you did [03:55.27]My mother said you were a selfish man [03:58.57]And I was your selfish kid [04:00.94]You were never any good with money [04:04.47]You couldn't even hold a job [04:07.37]Not steady enough for the office [04:10.51]Not hard enough for the hod [04:13.59]And your Norton it was soon gone [04:16.41]Along with your split cane rod [04:19.33]You were never any good with money [04:22.35]You couldn't even hold a job [04:24.99]You showed me eyebright in the hedgerow [04:28.66]Speedwell and travellers joy [04:31.60]You showed me how to use my eyes [04:34.65]When I was just a boy [04:37.40]And you taught me how to love a song [04:40.17]And all you knew of nature's ways [04:43.27]The greatest gifts I have ever known [04:46.49]And I use them every day [04:49.27]You were never any good with money [04:52.43]You couldn't even hold a job [04:55.41]Not steady enough for the office maybe [04:58.35]Not hard enough for the hod [05:01.54]You'd rather be riding your Norton [05:03.83]Or going fishing with your split cane rod [05:07.31]You were never any good with money [05:10.65]You couldn't even hold a job