Lyrics McAlpine's Fusiliers - Ronnie Drew, The Dubliners

McAlpine's Fusiliers - Ronnie Drew, The Dubliners
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song McAlpine's Fusiliers, artist - Ronnie Drew. Album song The Dubliners, in the genre Кельтская музыка
Date of issue: 25.09.1988
Record label: Parlophone
Song language: English

McAlpine's Fusiliers

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

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Artist lyrics: Ronnie Drew
Artist lyrics: The Dubliners