The Men They Couldn't Hang - Shirt of Blue lyrics

Hey now Tommy have you got a new shirt Is it the colour of fine bright blue? Has your mother sent you off to your school? From the street with a pretty view Shall we wrestle in the old school yard Like the other children do? We can scuff these shoes You can tear your hands And I'll rip that shirt off you Hey there Tommy since you moved away They've taken our town and they've made it new And now there stands a chemical plant Where the cherry orchard grew And I married Lucy from the back of our cla** Who once wrote letters to you And we've got kids and we send them to school From the street with a pretty view Oh in your shirt of blue Oh in your shirt of blue Maybe Tommy We grew up too quick From the fields Where the flowers grow From a bu*terfly stick To a baton and a brick You changed your uniforms far too soon Hey there Tommy shall we meet again In the morning wet with dew Me at the gates of the colliery And you in your shirt of blue Shall we wrestle in the muddy patch Like the other poor miners do? We can scuff our boots we can tear our hands And I will rip that shirt off you Oh in your shirt of blue Oh in your shirt of blue Maybe Tommy We grew up too quick From the fields Where the flowers grow From a bu*terfly stick To a baton and a brick You changed your uniforms far too soon