Well the docks lie crippled   In the northem towns   The boys have all gone away   Trying to find work down south      And mister I walk in the valley of the shadow   Won't someone have mercy on my soul   On my soul, soul, soul      HALLOWED GROUND how sad is the sound   In a valley that once sang out sang proud   HALLOWED GROUND where the ships run aground   To die in the harbour in a rust ridden town, town, town, town      Now I've seen the future   And I've seen the past   And I've seen the lights go down   On this world fading fast      And mister I walk in the valley of the shadow   Won't someone have mercy on my soul   On my soul, soul, soul      HALLOWED GROUND how sad is the sound   In a valley that once sang out sang proud   HALLOWED GROUND where the ships run aground   To die in the harbour in a rust ridden town, town, town, town      And mister I walk in the valley of the shadow   Won't someone have mercy on my soul   On my soul, soul, soul      HALLOWED GROUND how sad is the sound   In a valley that once sang out sang proud   HALLOWED GROUND where the ships run aground   To die in the harbour in a rust ridden town, town, town, town      Now I've got a wife and a young child   Back home in my house   Oh I've got someone   I've got to take care of somehow