A Lady Without Soul/ Soul Cake (feat. Pete Smith (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar), Manny Grimsley [Fiddle], Tom Wright [Electric Guitars], Soul Cake [Chorus Annie Smith, Pete Delamere, John Newman, Steve Sinclair, Alec Thompson, Martin Watson])
Pete Smith
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My father was a young man in the thirties Like many of his age he refused to crawl He took the royal shilling and went to do his duty Chose the comradeship of war to the evils of the dole They shipped him to Bombay to check the rising sun Then marched him to China and back again Lost his mates and his health on the jungle trails of Burma And his hopes and his faith in Man on the road to Mandalay But the forties brought them peace and a place in a council house The fifties gave them work and rock and roll The sixties were a shock that screamed from Mick Jagger's mouth The seventies brought 'In Place of Strife' and a lady without soul Dressed in his demob he entered civvy life A chest full of medals as victory from the dole Forty-five brought VE day, drunken nights and welfare rights The morning gave them rationed goods and a future digging coal For thirty years he served his time working down a local mine Digging coal to pay his dues towards the new welfare In seventy-nine he left the mine and hoped to sit with rod and line But the pension hardly paid the bills and left the cupboards bare But the forties brought them peace and a place in a council house The fifties gave them work and rock and roll The sixties were a shock that screamed from Mick Jagger's mouth The seventies brought 'In Place of Strife' and a lady without soul And the eighties brought decay as the right to work was tossed away Though profits soared and prices rose to please the Tory clan And the nineties brought them Blair with promises of new welfare But a politician's promise is not worth a grain of sand And now he sits in sheltered home and thinks about his mates who've gone Smokes a fag and sips tv and waits the bugler's call And once year at armistice he stands around to reminisce On a life of broken promises and lady without soul But the forties brought them peace and a place in a council house The fifties gave them work and rock and roll The sixties were a shock that screamed from Mick Jagger's mouth The seventies brought 'In Place of Strife' and a lady without soul A soul, a soul, a soul cake Please good miss a soul cake An apple a pear, a plum or a cherry Any good thing to make us merry One for Peter, two for Paul And three for them that's on the dole
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"A Lady Without Soul/ Soul Cake (feat. Pete Smith (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar), Manny Grimsley [Fiddle], Tom Wright [Electric Guitars], Soul Cake [Chorus Annie Smith, Pete Delamere, John Newman, Steve Sinclair, Alec Thompson, Martin Watson]) Lyrics." Lyrics.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Apr. 2024. <https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/4748093/Pete+Smith/A+Lady+Without+Soul-+Soul+Cake+%28feat.+Pete+Smith+%28Vocals%2C+Acoustic+Guitar%29%2C+Manny+Grimsley+%5BFiddle%5D%2C+Tom+Wright+%5BElectric+Guitars%5D%2C+Soul+Cake+%5BChorus+Annie+Smith%2C+Pete+Delamere%2C+John+Newman%2C+Steve+Sinclair%2C+Alec+Thompson%2C+Martin+Watson%5D%29>.
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