Dignity Lyrics - Deacon Blue

There's a man I meet walks up our street 

He's a worker for the council 

Has been twenty years 

And he takes no lip of nobody 

And litter off the gutter 

Puts it in a bag 

And never sthinks to mutter 

And he packs his lunch in a sunblest bag 

The children call him bogie 

He never lets on 

But I know 'cause he once told me 

He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty 

He's gonna buy a dinghy 

Gonna call her dignity 

And I'll sail her up the west coast 

Through villages and towns 

I'll be on my holidays 

They'll be doing their rounds 

They'll ask me how I got her I'll say "I saved my money" 

They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity 

And I'm telling this story 

In a faraway scene 

Sipping down raki 

And reading maynard keynes 

And I'm thinking about home and all that means 

And a place in the winter for dignity 

And I'll sail her up the west coast 

Through villages and towns 

I'll be on my holidays 

They'll be doing their rounds 

They'll ask me how I got her I'll say "I saved my money" 

They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity 

And I'm thinking about home 

And I'm thinking about faith 

And I'm thinking about work 

And I'm thinking how good it would be 

To be here some day