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The Likes Of Us

from The Likes of Us (2006) by Bob Bickerton

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A song inspired by the words of Blasket Island writer Tomás O’Crohan.

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The fisherman he turns her round and heads back to the shore,
He’s finished with the fishing, he’s made his final trawl.
Fifty years he’s worked the sea, but now his time is done,
He says ‘You’ll ne’er see the likes of us again’.
Oh the likes of us again, the likes of us again,
Oh you’ll ne’er see the likes of us again.

The farrier, the blacksmith. the weaver of the shawl,
They’re trades fast disappearing, soon you won’t see them at all.
No more you’ll hear the weaver’s loom, see sparks of anvil born,
They say ‘You’ll ne’er see the likes of us again.

I’ll tell you now the soldier’s trade, I wouldn’t miss at all,
He kills and maims his fellow man all for an unknown cause.
I’d like to meet the last of them, I’d like to hear him say,
Oh you’ll ne’er see the likes of us again.

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from The Likes of Us (2006), released January 9, 2006
Words and Music Bob Bickerton

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Bob Bickerton Nelson, New Zealand

Bob Bickerton is based in Nelson, New Zealand and has had a long career as a music manager, sound engineer and performing artist.

His earlier albums specialised in traditional and self-penned Celtic music, but in more recent times he has collaborated with other artists as a kaiwhakatangitangi or practitioner of taonga pūoro, the traditional instruments of Māori. ... more

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