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King Porter Stomp The King (Basie) We Free Kings (Kirk) A Pair of Kings (Getz/Silver album) King Size Poppa (Julia Lee) Next word: HEAD

Troy Donahue Ulysses S Grant Dido

Walter Pidgeon Toe Blake Art Blakey

Sadly, it was all very short lived, as shown by today's revelations: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/30/thatcher-government-liverpool-riots-1981

Burt Bacharach Johann Sebastian Sebastian Flyte

Buster Gonad Maude Gonne Maudie Littlehampton

David Cameron John Cameron Kes Bird Hawk Hines

Lefty Mr Right Dexter

Dalvatore Sally René Magritte Inspector Maigret

Audrey Russell Tawdry Bustle Darcey Bussell (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Penbleton Crittle)

Gil Melle George Melly Roger Mellie The Man On The Telly

Paul Raymond Debbie Raymond Debbie Does Dallas Sonny Dallas John Houston The Austin High School Gang

The Liver Birds The Harpies Peter Stringfellow

Here's some information: http://www.merseyferries.co.uk/content/Commuters/CommuterTimetable.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersey_Ferry

Hawk Eddie the Eagle Robert Falcon Scott

Jessica's Day (Quincy Jones) Night and Day Day After Day Sunday Stormy Monday Next word: HAPPY

Cool Dude Ice T William Coldstream

Gunther Graas Walt Whitman The Hitman

Max Planck Branch Davidians Tom Sawyer

Four Mothers Four Brothers Caldonia

J Arthur The Wankas, or Huancas, a historic people Master Bates

Willy Loman Shorty Rogers Allen Lowe

Audio archive seems as before.

The lyrics seem to contain a contradiction - wanting to stay and yet taking a ferry somewhere. Well, the situation is, as skeith suggests, like "ferry cross the Hudson" for New Yorkers. Ferries ply all the time across the Mersey from Liverpool to Birkenhead, part of the same conurbation and about half a mile away. I can testify to the warmth and communal feeling of Liverpudlians. There isn't a hint there of the "English reserve" which I find in the south of England and, though a Mancunian, I'm first to admit that the social atmosphere is a good deal chillier in this city than in Liverpool.