| Although I’ve left you darling
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| I’ll soon be back again
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| That’s what I said in China
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| Where all the work was dead
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| I hope you get my letters
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| I’ll write them every day
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| I’ll soon be heading eastwards
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| I’m hammering the nails
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| I’m working on the railroad
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| I dig away the time
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| I’m singing to the work song
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| With memories in mind
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| I’ll sail to Hong Kong harbor
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| The winds were warmer there
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| The sweat would roll down my back
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| While digging at the earth
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| While talking of you darling
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| I’d show your photograph
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| And point it over westwards
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| Way over past the tracks
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| I’m working on the railroad
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| I dig away the time
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| I’m singing to the work song
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| With memories in mind
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| I’m working on the railroad
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| I dig away the time
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| I’m singing to the work song
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| With memories in mind
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| Of you… of you, oh!
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| I’ve saved every penny, my girl
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| I hope that you have waited out there
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| For all my love when I get home
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| Cause deep down in my heart, there’s a hole?
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| I’ve saved every penny, my girl
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| I hope that you have waited out there
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| For all my love when I get home
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| Cause deep down in my heart, there’s a hole?
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| I’ve saved every penny, my girl
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| I hope that you have waited out there
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| For all my love when I get home
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| Cause deep down in my heart, there’s a hole? |