We've Got Now't Else

Good people give ear to me story
Now, pay attention, and none of your lip
For I've brought you these lads
And their daddy
And their daddy.

Intending to build you's a ship
Wallsend is wor habitation
It's the place we was all born and bred
And there's no finer lads in the nation
And none are more gallantly led
Let's get cracking gentlemen, chop chop! We've got a ship to build.

What've we got but the buzzer in the morning?
What've we got but the laying of a keel?
What've we got.

But the cranes above us soaring?
The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel
What've we got.

But the mist upon the river?
What've we got
But the noise inside the hold?
What've we got
But the arse end of the weather?
Where we work in horizontal rain, and
Shiver in the cold.

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't else.)

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't else.)

What've ye got
But the singing in the cables?
What've ye got
But the ringing in your ears?
What've ye got.

Well you can't claim you're disabled
‘Cause the bosses turned the tables
And your rights have disappeared.

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't else.)

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't else.)

Now what do you get for your politics?
Now't!
What do you get for your vote?
Now't!
Now what have we got at the end of the day?
A great big bloody boat!

You've got to die of something
It's written in your fate
You might as well
Die on a Tuesday
And woe betide
You're late.

What've ye got? (All you men what's fit and able?)
What've ye got? (For the straining in your neck?)
What've ye got? (When you're laid out on the table.)

And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck?
What've we got
But a yard full of big brothers?
What've we got
But a place to sling me tools?
What've we got
I can't wait to tell me mother!
And we'll teach you plenty other things you'll never learn in school.

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't else.)

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't else.)

What've ye got? (What've we got?)
What've ye got? (What've we got?)
You've got now't. (We've got now't.)
We've got now't, we've got now't else...