Biography:
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.
Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….
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Barbara Dickson - The Shipyard Apprentice
[INTRO:] C
[VERSE 1:]
G C G
I was born in the shadow of a Fairfield crane
Dm F C
And the blast of a freighter's horn
G F C
Was the very first sound that reached my ears
Dm F G
On the morning I was born
Dm
As I lay and I listened to the shipyard sounds
F G C
Coming out of the unknown
G F C
I was lulled to sleep by a mother tongue
Dm F G
That was to be my own
[VERSE 2:]
C G
Before I grew to one year old
Dm F C
I heard the sirens scream
G F C
As a city watched in the blacked-out night
Dm F G
A wandering searchlight beam
Dm
And then one day I awoke and rose
F G C
To my first day of peace
G F C
And I learned that the battle to stay alive
Dm F G
Was never going to cease
[VERSE 3:]
C G
And I sat in the school from nine to four
Dm F C
And I dreamed of the world outside
G F C
Where the riveters and the platers watch
Dm F G
Their ships slip to the Clyde
Dm
Where the girls are placing stone on stone
F G C
And can watch his Labourer's Row
G F C
My time will come to walk with them
Dm F G
In the land I love to know
[VERSE 4:]
C G
And then one day when they set me free
Dm F C
I'll be walking like a man
G F C
Wi' my purses weighted in my boots
Dm F G
In the shadow o'er the clan
Dm
And the oil and the grease will stain my skin
F G C
Forever on my hands
G F C
A living sign that I've been set free
Dm F G
That I've become a man
[INTRO:] C
[VERSE 1:]
G C G
I was born in the shadow of a Fairfield crane
Dm F C
And the blast of a freighter's horn
G F C
Was the very first sound that reached my ears
Dm F G
On the morning I was born
Dm
As I lay and I listened to the shipyard sounds
F G C
Coming out of the unknown
G F C
I was lulled to sleep by a mother tongue
Dm F G
That was to be my own
[VERSE 2:]
C G
Before I grew to one year old
Dm F C
I heard the sirens scream
G F C
As a city watched in the blacked-out night
Dm F G
A wandering searchlight beam
Dm
And then one day I awoke and rose
F G C
To my first day of peace
G F C
And I learned that the battle to stay alive
Dm F G
Was never going to cease
[VERSE 3:]
C G
And I sat in the school from nine to four
Dm F C
And I dreamed of the world outside
G F C
Where the riveters and the platers watch
Dm F G
Their ships slip to the Clyde
Dm
Where the girls are placing stone on stone
F G C
And can watch his Labourer's Row
G F C
My time will come to walk with them
Dm F G
In the land I love to know
[VERSE 4:]
C G
And then one day when they set me free
Dm F C
I'll be walking like a man
G F C
Wi' my purses weighted in my boots
Dm F G
In the shadow o'er the clan
Dm
And the oil and the grease will stain my skin
F G C
Forever on my hands
G F C
A living sign that I've been set free
Dm F G
That I've become a man
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