title: If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
text: # If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
  
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  If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song is the third album by The Icicle Works. The album was released in 1987.
  
  In 2011, Cherry Red Records issued a 3-CD expanded edition of If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song. Disc 1 featured the original album in its entirety, disc 2 featured a wealth of related demos, b-sides, and remixes, and disc 3 featured a complete live concert entitled Live at the Town And Country Club, 1986.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Original release
  
  LP version All songs written by Ian McNabb.
  
  * "Hope Springs Eternal" – 4:06
  * "Travelling Chest" – 4:40
  * "Sweet Thursday" – 4:17
  * "Up Here in the North of England" – 5:12
  * "Who Do You Want for Your Love?" – 3:54
  * "When You Were Mine" – 4:37
  * "Evangeline" – 4:05
  * "Truck Driver's Lament" – 5:18
  * "Understanding Jane" – 3:21
  * "Walking With a Mountain" – 4:44
  
  CD version The original CD version contained four bonus tracks: "Everybody Loves to Play the Fool", "I Never Saw My Hometown 'Til I Went Around the World", "Into the Mystic" and "Don't Let It Rain on My Parade".
  
  All songs written by Ian McNabb, except "Into the Mystic" written by Van Morrison.
  
  * "Hope Springs Eternal" – 4:06
  * "Travelling Chest" – 4:40
  * "Sweet Thursday" – 4:17
  * "Up Here in the North of England" – 5:12
  * "Who Do You Want for Your Love?" – 3:54
  * "Everybody Loves to Play the Fool" – 4:08
  * "When You Were Mine" – 4:37
  * "Don't Let It Rain on My Parade" – 4:35
  * "Evangeline" – 4:05
  * "Truck Driver's Lament" – 5:18
  * "Understanding Jane" – 3:21
  * "I Never Saw My Hometown 'Til I Went Around the World" – 2:48
  * "Walking With a Mountain" – 4:44
  * "Into the Mystic" – 3:40
  
  ### 2011 expanded edition
  
  Disc 1 follows the same track listing as the 10-track LP version of this album.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Robert Ian "Boots" McNabb – guitar, vocals, keyboards, harmonica
  * Chris Layhe – bass, vocals, keyboards
  * Chris Sharrock – drums, percussion
  
  with:
  
  * Dave Green – keyboards
  * Mike Timmoney – keyboards
  * Ritchie Close – keyboards
  * Ian Broudie – keyboards; guitar solo on "When You Were Mine"
  * Alison Limerick – backing vocal on "Evangeline"
  