Hail The Ball letra

They're gathering at Cloffocks
In the late afternoon
Testosterone in T shirts
The game's beginning soon
An ancient war-like stuggle
For the Park or harbour wall
The Uppies and the Downies
Wage a battle for the ball
Hail, hail the ball
Hail the barbarians
Running along the Harbour Wall

The ball is up, they're in the beck
The scrum is hard and tight
The ball flies out away they run
The beat the failing light.
They're ploughing up the cricket pitch
And allotments of the town.
Stand back, stand back, bystander
Or the scrum will run you down
Laughing, pushing flexing style
Dark determined eyes.
Thousands crowd the high-ground
Murmuring asides.
They think the ball is the pack
In the blood and muck and dirt.
But there are no rules in this game.
It's stuffed up Millican's shirt.

Maddy Prior - Letras

• A Boy Was Born
• Accapella Stella
• After The Death
• Ali Baba
• All Around My Hat
• Allelujah
• Almost Every Circumstance
• Another Drink
• Autumn: Marigold/Harvest Home
• Baggy Pants
• Bitter Withy
• Blood and Gold / Mohacs
• Bloomers
• Bold Poachers
• Boney
• Boy On a Horse
• Boys Of Bedlam
• Brother Lawrence
• Canals
• Catseyes
• Cold Flame
• Commit The Crime
• Dance On The Wind
• Deep In The Darkest Night
• Deep Water
• Dives And Lazarus
• Each Heart
• Face To Face
• Fanny Blair
• God Squad
• Great Silkie Of Sules Skerry
• Gutter Geese
• Hail The Ball
• Half Listening
• Heart Of Stone
• Hind Horn
• Honest Work
• Hope Lies Now
• I Heard The Banns
• I Sall Goe Until A Hare
• I Shall Run And Run
• I Told You So
• In Fighting
• In The Company Of Ravens
• Jade
• Lark In The Morning
• Long Shadows
• Loot
• Mater Dolorosa
• Morning Girls
• Mother And Child
• Oh No
• Once And Future King
• Pater Noster
• Pity The Poor Night Porter
• Queen And Sovereignty
• Ravenchild
• Reynardine
• Rich Pickings
• Rigs Of The Time
• Rollercoaster
• Rosettes
• Ruled By The Moon
• Saboteur
• Saucy Sailor
• Scent Of Dog
• Scorched Earth
• Sentry
• Sheath And Knife
• Snowdrops
• Somewhere Along the Road
• Sorry The Day I Was Married
• Spring: Snowdrops/Birth
• Summer: Swimming Song
• The Cruel Mother
• The Duke Of Marlborough
• The Fabled Hare
• The Hallows
• The Hare Said
• The Laugh And The Kiss
• The Masts Of Morrigan
• The Mountain
• The Name Of Arthur
• The Rolling English Road
• The Sovereign Prince
• To Have And To Hold
• Tribal Warriors
• Trivial Hymn
• Twankydillo
• Veturae Remembering
• What Had You For Supper?
• Who Am I
• Winter: Long Shadows
• Winter: Red And Green
• Woman In The Wings
• Young Bloods