The Leaky Tub

Oh this Amsterdam O' bawdy southern climes

All awash in amber neon & sin

'll see yer guts for galluses, sixes for yer nine's

The cruelest place that I have ever been

Oh there's women here blow hot & icy cold

And they’ll fight like rotten gull's to pick yer cage

On the arms o' villains who'll see yer kidneys sold

They'll spare condition, sex nor age.

And I'll curse the day a thousand shades o' blue

When I swapped my Scottish Lion for a boxing kangaroo

And I'll have one for the Mary, for Rollin' Annie too

And one for the leaky tub that brought me here to you

She were cut from the rock by the rare old stock

Sent to hell in the devil's jewelry

In her crown of fire & twisted bloody wire

Tryin' to drive us all back into the sea

Where you took my hand & helped me understand

What it’s like without them shackles just a while

And we blazed our way around Blackwattle Bay

And danced along The Hungry Mile.

Iron'll rust & corn'll ripen

All the oceans’ll turn to steam

Whate'er'll pass and whatever'll happen

You’ll remain my lucid dream

Oh the winds'll roar & cities’ll crumble

All that steam'll fall as tears

And achin' hearts’ll sing along in chorus

Across all the miles and down the years