shipbuilding

Produced by Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley, 1995 On the HELP Warchild album (1995) A cover of Elvis Costello

Is it worth it?
A new winters coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children, soon we'll be shipbuilding

Well I ask you, the boy said, 
"Daddy's going to take me to task,
But I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children, soon we'll be shipbuilding
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The results of their shipbuilding
With all the will in the world,
Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls

It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children, soon we'll be shipbuilding
A telegram or a picture postcard
Within weeks we will be reopening the shipyard
And notifying the next of kin, once again
It's always killed in,
We will be shipbuilding

With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls