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Mersey Tales

from Releasing The Sheep by Latin Quarter

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Mersey Tales
Many big cities have rivers that run through them. If the river that runs through your village, town or city, could speak, what stories would it tell? Would it tell of the history of the shining achievements and successes of the region or would it start to tell the darker secrets , the stories perhaps you wouldn't want other people to hear? The tragedies and the shame? That's the underlying theme.
I just happened to choose Liverpool as the example for this particular story. (There is a 'London Tales' written somewhere that worked from a similar premise - so why didn't I call it 'Thames Tales'?..hmmmm).
The original draught contains a lot more information in the references, which made it easier to identify the strands of stories that the song is talking about. However, it didn't all suite the song structure. Sometimes collaboration can mean carnage.
The chorus was originally written in a slightly more call and refrain style. Whilst there was the positive "You'll never walk alone" call, there was a second line with a slightly darker response of "You're never going home" which Steve S never liked, so it never made it into the song structure.
Michael MacNeill

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MERSEY TALES
(JEFFRIES / MACNEILL)

Looking from Port Sunlight, where they make the soap
Across the Mersey where they used to make rope
2000 miles of cable, morse code enabled
The Great Eastern and stories told

You’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
Many thousand miles from home
You’ll never walk alone

Staring out from Port Sunlight in the driving rain
Across the Mersey where they used to make chains
And the building of an empire on a workforce of slaves
Monuments of trade
For those that settled, those that remained.

If the Mersey told the stories it sent to sea
There’s more than just a flagpole outside Liverpool FC
As the world sits down to the Premier league

Looking back at Port Sunlight through sugar and cotton
Across the Mersey, the Liver Bird forgotten
See it in the photos, the faces, the whips
Every three days the ships
Leaving and arriving to ticker tape.

You’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
Many thousand miles from home
You’ll never walk alone
We cannot walk alone

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from Releasing The Sheep, released October 29, 2021

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Latin Quarter are celebrating the 40th anniverary of their 'Modern Times'-album this year. They first burst onto the scene with their singles "Radio Africa" and "New Millionaires" – songs that stayed for months in the German single charts in the 80s. The band split up in 1998. In 2011 five of the original musicians got together again. 7 new albums released after this reunion. . ... more

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