The Birmingham canals

 I was on a submarine (sunburnt marine)

Somewhere over near Birmingham

We'd come the wrong way up the canals

Whoo ee, whoo ey

What a bow wave

All up the Birmingham canal

I saw New Street from the crow's nest

And the Bull Ring

We torpedoed in a haze

But the silversmiths built us a new ship's hull

And a shining, spangling we heave-hoed

All the way to the Brummie navy

Come on chums and climb aboard

I'm just ready for the black country

Where I can lay my soul down in the coals

See what tomorrow brings

 For we don't know what tomorrow will bring

The sea is a changing thing

For the clouds roll on

The sky's ever changing

We cannot hold onto a transient thing

All the small things matter

Don't be so cruel my love

Our life can be in peril

A fountain that's trembling

All the falling snow

All the light things

Only kindness bears the weight of tragedy

Only heat can melt the icy spring

Let the waters flow

See what tomorrow brings

See what tomorrow brings

Life

 How can they tell,

And where is the switch

Who told the driver to drive into the ditch

All that I know is that life is an itch

And you must scratch it unless

It gonna have you in fits

How could he go

Where will they hitch

How will I know now

Life can be a ...