they used to build big ships here they used to make them tall now there are no shipyards here at all they used to dig for coal here they used to scrape and crawl now there are no coalfields here at all steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors we ll never see your likes again no more workers it s gone the way of all good things they used to forge the steel here they d sweat through every pore now there are no steelworks anymore they used to land their catch here the silver darlings run ah but now the fishing is all gone steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors we ll never see your likes again no more workers it s gone the way of all good things tall masts would sail from shipyards pride of the clyde they d say now all the ships have gone away steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors we ll never see your likes again no more workers it s gone the way of all good things  steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen miners shipwrights and sailors steelmen 