Shipbuilding (song)
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title:
Shipbuilding (song)
text:
"Shipbuilding" is a song with lyrics by Elvis Costello and music by Clive Langer. Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics highlight the irony of the war bringing back prosperity to the traditional shipbuilding areas of Clydeside, Merseyside, North East England and Belfast to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war, whilst also sending off the sons of these areas to fight and, potentially, lose their lives in those same ships. According to Robert Sandall, the be
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Song written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipbuilding_(song)
date created:
2006-09-22T10:11:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:13:33Z
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