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[00:00.50]Sky Hooks and Tartan Paint Brian Johnson) - Sting
[00:25.06]Me first day in the shipyard  the gaffer says to me
[00:29.18]"I want ye to go to the store lad and get a few things  ye see
[00:33.49]Now here's a list  can ye read lad  Can ye read it back to me
[00:37.60]And me and the boys'll listen while were having wah morning tea "
[00:44.90]Now reading was me pride when I left school at fourteen
[00:48.65]There wouldn't be no problem here  I'd show them I was keen
[00:52.38]But when I starts to reading  they just couldn't hold their mirth
[00:56.25]Hugging themselves and spluttering like they was giving birth
[01:00.19]"First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat
[01:04.94]And then three cans of tartan paint  and that's me task complete "
[01:08.42]The gaffer pats me on the head and sends me on me way
[01:11.89]He says  "Don't come back empty handed lad  or I'll have to dock yr pay "
[01:19.05]So I gets to the store all nervous and the quartermaster's there
[01:23.42]I pulls the list out of me pocket and I starts to read all square
[01:27.23]Well I hadn't barely finished when the store-man's face turns red
[01:32.22]He gives me such an evil look I thought I'd soon be dead
[01:36.93]"First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat
[01:40.80]And then three cans of tartan paint  and that's me task complete "
[01:44.61]The store-man swipes me on the head and sends me on me way
[01:48.22]With a kick in the arse for me efforts  and such was my first day
[02:23.91]I gets back home that evening and me mother says to me
[02:28.47]"How was it son  How was your day  Sit down and have some tea "
[02:34.15]I told her of the list I'd read and the trouble I was in
[02:40.64]I couldn't go back tomorrow or the gaffer'd have me skinned
[02:44.39]"First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat
[02:49.06]And then three cans of tartan paint  and that's me task complete "
[02:52.54]Me mother swipes me on the head and sends me on me way
[02:56.56]With a kick in the arse for me efforts  and such was my first day
[03:11.57]With a kick in the arse for me efforts  and such was my first day