A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics

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"Billy Bragg is one of Britain's most distinctive and accomplished songwriters, whose work has articulated the passions, both personal and political, of Britain during the past five decades. A Lover Sings contains over seventy of his best-known lyrics, selected, annotated and with an introduction by the author"--Jacket flap.;Cosmonaut -- The milkman of human kindness -- To have and to have not -- Richard -- A new England -- The man in the iron mask -- The busy girl buys beauty -- Lover's town revisited -- It says here -- The myth of trust -- From a Vauxhall Velox -- The Saturday boy -- Island of no return -- St Swithin's day -- A lover sings -- Between the wars -- I don't need this pressure, Ron -- Scholarship is the enemy of romance -- Walk away Renee (version) -- Greetings to the new brunette (aka Shirley) -- The marriage -- Ideology -- Levi Stubbs' tears -- Honey I'm a big boy now -- There is power in a union -- Help save the youth of America -- Wishing the days away -- The passion -- The warmest room -- The home front -- She's got a new spell -- Must I paint you a picture? -- Tender comrade -- The price I pay -- Little time bomb -- Valentine's Day is over -- The only one -- The short answer -- Waiting for the great leap forwards -- The Internationale -- I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night -- Accident waiting to happen -- Moving the goalposts -- Cindy of a thousand lives -- You woke up my neighbourhood -- Trust -- God's footballer -- The few -- Sexuality -- Tank park salute -- Rumours of war -- Body of water -- Ontario, Quebec and me -- Sulk -- As long as you hold me -- From red to blue -- Upheld -- Brickbat -- The space race is over -- The fourteenth of February -- King James version -- The boy done good -- St Monday -- England, half English -- NPWA -- Take down the Union Jack -- Tears of my tracks -- Yarra song -- Old Clash fan fight song -- I keep faith -- M for me -- Something happened -- January song -- Handyman blues -- Do unto others -- Goodbye, goodbye -- Tomorrow's going to be a better day -- Song of the iceberg. Cosmonaut -- The milkman of human kindness -- To have and to have not -- Richard -- A new England -- The man in the iron mask -- The busy girl buys beauty -- Lover's town revisited -- It says here -- The myth of trust -- From a Vauxhall Velox -- The Saturday boy -- Island of no return -- St Swithin's day -- A lover sings -- Between the wars -- I don't need this pressure, Ron -- Scholarship is the enemy of romance -- Walk away Renee (version) -- Greetings to the new brunette (aka Shirley) -- The marriage -- Ideology -- Levi Stubbs' tears -- Honey I'm a big boy now -- There is power in a union -- Help save the youth of America -- Wishing the days away -- The passion -- The warmest room -- The home front -- She's got a new spell -- Must I paint you a picture? -- Tender comrade -- The price I pay -- Little time bomb -- Valentine's Day is over -- The only one -- The short answer -- Waiting for the great leap forwards -- The Internationale -- I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night -- Accident waiting to happen -- Moving the goalposts -- Cindy of a thousand lives -- You woke up my neighbourhood -- Trust -- God's footballer -- The few -- Sexuality -- Tank park salute -- Rumours of war -- Body of water -- Ontario, Quebec and me -- Sulk -- As long as you hold me -- From red to blue -- Upheld -- Brickbat -- The space race is over -- The fourteenth of February -- King James version -- The boy done good -- St Monday -- England, half English -- NPWA -- Take down the Union Jack -- Tears of my tracks -- Yarra song -- Old Clash fan fight song -- I keep faith -- M for me -- Something happened -- January song -- Handyman blues -- Do unto others -- Goodbye, goodbye -- Tomorrow's going to be a better day -- Song of the iceberg.