The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Family Way lyrics

Been in jail for twenty years, It was twenty years ago Fought a man with my bare hands, k**ed him with a blow I'd searched the bars and Betting shops in every part of time Swore that night he'd wear a suit Of pinewood six feet down A changing world keeps moving fast My yesterday's tomorrow's in the past When it's one against the rest It always puts you to the test But I swear I'd do it all again today Because it's the family way In hospital my brother lay Just looking at his wounds They caught him down by London Bridge one Friday afternoon It was the strangeness of his accent, The bareness of his purse Because there was but one of him And three to do their worst (Chorus) My brother died and left behind A girl bearing a child She broke down at the funeral To see his face defiled She wears the silver ring Of a fiancee Both were taken to our home, Shown the family way (Chorus) When I get out a week today I'll the London train There's two men there who've Bought a share in twenty years of pain In this old world of kith & kin Are all that's on your side Twenty years won't matter when The matter's put to rights (Chorus X 2)