Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Navigator (The John Peel Show) [December 1984], artist - The Pogues. Album song The BBC Sessions 1984 -1986, in the genre Фолк-рок
Date of issue: 30.11.1987
Record label: Warner Music UK
Song language: English
Navigator (The John Peel Show) [December 1984] |
The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts |
They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts |
They never drank water but whiskey by pints |
And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights |
Navigator, navigator rise up and be strong |
The morning is here and there’s work to be done |
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite |
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight |
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight |
They died in their hundreds with no sign to mark where |
Save the brass in the pocket of the entrepreneur |
By landslide and rockblast they got buried so deep |
That in death if not life they’ll have peace while they sleep |
Their mark on this land is still seen and still laid |
The way for a commerce where vast fortunes were made |
The supply of an empire where the sun never set |
Which is now deep in darkness, but the railway’s there yet |