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Colum Sands
	Year:	1989
	Album:	THE MARCH DITCH
	Song:	The last house in our street
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, tin wistle, Ben Sands: mandoline, backing vocals Oisin, Niamh, Kolya, Dara: Distant vocals
The last house in our street is the one that we are living in, Throw the ball against the wall and back to me, All the other windows have concrete curtains, Open up your eyes and tell me what you see. The flowers in our garden are made of bricks end broken glass, Throw the ball, etc... And 'round the back we're growing an outside toilet, Open up your eyes, etc... Wee Albert Mooney was blinded by a petrol bomb, Throw the ball, etc... The bombers said, We're sorry it must have been en accident, Open up you, eyes, etc... A big rubber bullet killed little Johnny Morrissey, Throw the ball, etc... A policeman fired it, it must have been en accident, Open up your eyes, etc... God made the world and Belfast is a part of it, Throw the ball, etc... Sometimes I wonder if Belfast was an accident, Open up you, eyes, etc... There's a wall, so there is, between us and them, there is, Throw the ball, etc... Is there anyone can tell me that they didn't help in building it? Open up you, eyes, etc... But the eyes of the world have concrete curtains, Throw the ball, etc... Would you tear down the wall, would you open up the windows, Would you open up your eyes end tell me what you see. The last house in our street is the one that we are living in, Throw the ball against the wall and back to me, All the other windows have concrete curtains, Open up your eyes end tell me what you see. (3x)