Salonika
Jimmy Crowley * Track #5 On The Boys of Fair Hill
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Salonika by Jimmy Crowley
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A Cork street-song expressing the point of view of the ‘Sepera’ i.e. a woman who was paid separation money when her husband went to fight with the British Army, in this case, during the First World War. ‘Salonika’ is the Greek city of Thessaloniki, home to a British military base at the time. Men in...
Salonika Lyrics
[Verse 1]
My husband's in Salonika
I wonder if he's dead
I wonder if he knows he has
A kid with a foxy head
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 2]
And when the war is over
What will the slackers do?
They'll be all around the soldiers
For the loan of a bob or two
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 3]
And when the war is over
What will the soldiers do?
They'll be walking around with a leg-and-a-half
The slackers will have two
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 4]
They tax their pound o' butter
They tax their ha'penny bun
But still with all their taxes
Thеy can't beat the bloody Hun
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldiеr boy
[Verse 5]
They tax the Coliseum
They tax St Mary's Hall
Why don't they tax the bobbies
With their backs against the wall
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 6]
And when the war is over
What will the slackers do?
For every kid in America
In Cork there will be two
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 7]
For they takes us out to Blarney
They lays us on the grass
They puts us in the family way
And leaves us on our arse
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 8]
There's lino in the parlour
And in the kitchen too
A glass-backed chevonier
That we got from Dicky Glue
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 9]
And never marry a soldier
A sailor or a Marine
But keep your eye in the Sinn Fein boy
With his yellow, white and green
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy