Casual Curses

by The Alcoves

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Casual Curses by The Alcoves.

The lyrics are a poem by North Belfast poet John Campbell written in the late 50s.

Arrangement by The Alcoves, putting the poem roughly to the tune The Brighton March.

Recorded and mixed by Carl Small at Analogue Catalogue Studios, Co. Down.
Mastered by Joel Harkin.

lyrics

Did you ever sign on the bloody brew,
The bloody brew, the bloody brew,
You stand for hours in a big long queue
in the bloody brew in Belfast

Did you ever sign on the casual box
Oh did you ever sign on,
They say them lads take some hard knocks
on the casual box in Belfast

They'll make you sign there ever day,
every day, every day
and they'll stop your dole if you go astray
on the casual box in Belfast

Report work at 8 o'clock
Oh report for work each morning,
but there's no bloody work on the Belfast docks
for the casual man in Belfast

They'll starve your kids on the word of a jerk
word of a jerk, word of a jerk
who'll say you didn't show up for work
on the casual box in Belfast

And the way they look when they pay out your dockets,
pay out your dockets, pay out your dockets,
you would think it was out of their own bloody pockets
on the casual box in Belfast

I hope to go God when my life's through
Oh I hope then when I'm done,
where I go they don't have any bloody brew
like the bloody brew in Belfast

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released March 30, 2023

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