A Manchester Man by Jude Kyrie

I am Manchester born and Manchester-bred. 
I love my city and love my dead. 
We give all we've got 
Heritage lives here in smokey days.
But we are all family in every way. 

Send us your cowards and misguided creeps. 
We will drag their bodies in our cobbled streets. 
In cowardly hiding, you kill our offspring 
But in god's eyes, their souls will sing 

As strong as the history in our brass bands. 
We live in the heart of our god's safe hands 
So try to quell us like others have tried 
And look at the books and see how they died. 

I am Manchester born and Manchester-bred. 
I love my city and love my dead.