[ti:Thousands Are Sailing] [ar:The Pogues] [al:The Pogues In Paris - 30th Ann] [offset:0] [00:02.64]Thousands Are Sailing—The Pogues [00:19.55]The island it is silent now [00:23.00]But the ghosts still haunt the waves [00:26.43]And the torch lights up a famished man [00:30.64]Who fortune could not save [00:33.51] [00:34.14]Did you work upon the railroad [00:37.70]Did you rid the streets of crime [00:41.57]Were your dollars from the white house [00:45.20]Were they from the five and dime [00:48.64]Did the old songs taunt or cheer you [00:52.89]And did they still make you cry [00:56.26]Did you count the months and years [00:59.45]Or did your teardrops quickly dry [01:03.23]Ah, no, says he, 'twas not to be [01:06.93]On a coffin ship I came here [01:10.50]And I never even got so far [01:14.25]That they could change my name [01:17.49]Thousands are sailing [01:21.76]Across the western ocean [01:24.96]To a land of opportunity [01:28.64]That some of them will never see [01:32.15]Fortune prevailing [01:35.72]Across the western ocean [01:39.34]Their bellies full [01:41.98]spirits Their free [01:42.50]They'll break the chains of poverty [01:46.04]And they'll dance [01:50.11] [01:56.73]In Manhattan's desert twilight [02:00.35]In the death of afternoon [02:04.11]We stepped hand in hand on Broadway [02:07.79]Like the first man on the moon [02:11.31]And "The Blackbird" broke the silence [02:15.18]As you whistled it so sweet [02:18.81]And in Brendan Behan's footsteps [02:22.39]I danced up and down the street [02:26.08]Then we said goodnight to Broadway [02:29.63]Giving it our best regards [02:33.20]Tipped our hats to Mister Cohen [02:36.63]Dear old Times Square's favorite bard [02:40.26]Then we raised a glass to JFK [02:44.08]And a dozen more besides [02:47.39]When I got back to my empty room [02:51.14]I suppose I must have cried [02:54.43]Thousands are sailing [02:58.50]Again across the ocean [03:01.94]Where the hand of opportunity [03:05.32]Draws tickets in a lottery [03:08.82]Postcards we're mailing [03:12.26]Of sky-blue skies and oceans [03:15.95]From rooms the daylight never sees [03:19.57]Where lights don't glow on Christmas trees [03:23.33]we But dance to the music [03:24.45]And we dance [03:25.70] [03:58.46]Thousands are sailing [04:01.46]Across the western ocean [04:04.90]Where the hand of opportunity [04:07.15]Draws tickets in a lottery [04:11.71]Where e'er we go, we celebrate [04:15.30]The land that makes us refugees [04:18.58]From fear of Priests with empty plates [04:22.33]From guilt and weeping effigies [04:25.65]And we dance