Tonart: A major
Verse 1
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As down the glen came McAlpine's men
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With their shovels slung behind them
And up in the spike you'll find them
With pints and quarts of beer
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And now we're on the road again
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With McAlpine's fusiliers
Verse 2
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I stripped to the skin with Darky Flynn
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Way down upon the Isle of Grain
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With Horseface Toole then I knew the rule
No money if you stop for rain
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McAlpine's God was a well filled hod
Your shoulders cut to bits and seared
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And woe to he who to looks for tea
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Verse 3
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I remember the day that the Bear O'Shea
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Fell into a concrete stairs
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What Horseface said, when he saw him dead
Well, it wasn't what the rich call prayers
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I'm a navvy short was the one retort
That reached unto my ears
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With McAlpine's fusiliers
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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I've worked 'till the sweat has had me bet
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With Russian, Czech and Pole
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On shuddering jams up in the hydro dams
Or underneath the Thames in a hole
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I grafted hard and I've got me cards
And many a ganger's fist across me ears
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If you pride your life, don't join by Christ
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With McAlpine's fusiliers
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