Sting - what have we got?

이 노래는 작사가가 고향 웰스엔드에서 젊은이들과 함께 배를 만들며 겪는 역경을 이야기한다
그는 그 과정에서의 힘든 작업과 함께 느끼는 자부심, 과거의 추억을 소중히 여긴다
일과 동료애 속에서 따뜻한 연대감을 담고 있다

Good people give ear to me story
Pay attention, and none of your lip
For I've brought you five lads and their daddy
Intending to build you a ship
Wallsend is war habitation
It's the place we was all born and bred
And there's nay finer lads in the nation
And none are more gallantly led
What have we got, but the buzzer in the morning?
Aye, and what have we got, but the laying of a keel?
And what have we got, but the cranes above us soaring?
The commotion and the clamor in the welding of the steel?
What have we got, but the mist upon the river?
Tell me, what have we got, but the noise inside the hold?
Oh, what have we got, but the arse end of the weather?
Where we work in horizontal rain, and shiver in the cold
What do you got? (What do we got?)
You've got nowt. We've got nowt else
What have you got, but the singing in the cables?
Oh, what have you got, but the ringing in your ears?
Aye, what have you got, but the telling of the fables?
And the memories of the ships, that we've been building donkey's years