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 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 what do you got you ve got nowt we ve got nowt else aye you ve got to die of something it s written in your fate you may as well die of a tuesday and woe betide you re late what have you got all you men what s fit and able what have you got for the straining in your neck what have you got when you re laid out on the table and the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck what have you got but the loyalty of brothers what have you got but this union of the dock what have you got a bacon sandwich from your mother not a promise of another with the punching of the clock  what do you got you ve got nowt we ve got nowt else1