Written by Liverpool artist Ian Prowse of the band Amsterdam. It riffs off ideas and images that anyone from Liverpool can easily recognise. It is a song that is just so 'Liverpool' a complex celtic tapestry of history, emotion and place.
It is not quite a celebratory song and indeed the last verse is particularly harrowing.
Can't concieve what those children done
Guess theres a meaness in the soul of man
Yorkshire policemen chat with folded arms
While people try and save their fellow fans
I'll just give a brief quotation from the lyrics as there is a better deconstruction of the song here: http://aliverpoolfolksongaweek.blogspot.co.uk/
The song encapsulates so much about Liverpool... a real trip through the psychography of the city and its people.
JFT96
