ISLAND OF NO RETURN As recorded by Billy Bragg (From the 1984 Album BREWING UP WITH BILLY BRAGG) [Intro] [Verse 1] Digging all day and digging all night To keep my foxhole out of sight Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze Fear in my stomach fear in the sky I eat my dinner with a weary eye After all this it won’t be the same Messing around on Salisbury Plain [Chorus] Pick up your feet fall in move out We’re going to a party way down South Me and the Corporal out on a spree Damned from here to eternity [Bridge] I can already taste the blood in my mouth? We’re going to a party way down South [Interlude] [Verse 2] I hate this flat land there’s no cover For sons and fathers and brothers and lovers I can take the killing I can take the slaughter But I don’t talk to Sun reporters I never thought that I would be Fighting fascists in the Southern Sea I saw one today and in his hand Was a weapon that was made in Birmingham [Chorus] Pick up your feet fall in move out We’re going to a party way down South Me and the Corporal out on a spree Damned from here to eternity [Bridge] I can already taste the blood in my mouth? We’re going to a party way down South [Interlude] [Chorus] I wish Kipling and the Captain were here To record our pursuits for posterity Me and the Corporal out on a spree Damned from here to eternity [Outro]