
Date of issue: 25.07.2013
Record label: Celtic Collections
Song language: English
The Big Strong Man |
have you heard about the big strong man? |
well, he lives in the caravan |
have you heard about the Jeffery Johnson fight |
well lordy what a hell of a fight |
you can take every heavy weight you’ve got |
we’ve got a lad who can beat the whole lot |
well, he used to ring the bells in the belfry no he’s gonna fight |
Jack Dempsey… |
He was my brother Sylvest (What's he got?) |
A row of forty medals on his chest (Big Chest!) |
well, he killed fifty badmen in the west |
he knows no rest, thinkin' a man’s hell fire |
don’t push, just shove, plenty of room for you and me |
he’s got an arm like a leg |
and a punch that can sick a battle ship (Big Ship!) |
well it takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest |
well he’d thought he’d take a trip to Italy |
and he thought he’d go by sea |
well he jumped of the harbour in New York |
and he swam like a man made of cork |
he saw the Lusitania in distress (What'd he do?) |
well he put the Lusitania on his chest |
drank up all the water in the sea and he walked all the way to Italy |
He was my brother Sylvest (What's he got?) |
A row of forty medals on his chest (Big Chest!) |
well, he killed fifty badmen in the west |
he knows no rest, thinkin' a man’s hell fire |
don’t push, just shove, plenty of room for you and me |
he’s got an arm like a leg |
and a punch that can sick a battle ship (Big Ship!) |
well it takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest |
well he thought he’d take a trip to old Japan |
and they turned out the whole brass band |
well he played every instrument they got |
he played the whole lot |
well the old church bells were ringing (Hell's bells!) |
the old church choir were singing (Hell's choir!) |
they all turned out to say farewell to my big brother Sylvest |
He was my brother Sylvest (What's he got?) |
A row of forty medals on his chest (Big Chest!) |
well, he killed fifty badmen in the west |
he knows no rest, thinkin' a man’s hell fire |
don’t push, just shove, plenty of room for you and me |
he’s got an arm like a leg |
and a punch that can sick a battle ship (Big Ship!) |
well it takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest |
Name | Year |
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Come out Ye Black and Tans | 1990 |
Rifles of the I.R.A. | 1994 |
Go Home British Soldiers | 2014 |
The Wearing of the Green | 2013 |
Men Behind the Wire | 2013 |
Rifles of the IRA | 2013 |
Boys of the Old Brigade | 2014 |
The Fighting 69th | 2013 |
Foggy Dew | 2014 |
Skibereen | 1994 |
Irish Eyes | 2013 |
The Butchers Apron | 2013 |
We Shall Overcome | 2013 |
Streets of New York | 2013 |
Ta Na La | 2013 |
Admiral William Brown | 2013 |
The Orange and the Green | 2013 |
Flight of the Earls | 2013 |
Padraic Pearse | 2013 |
Let the People Sing | 2013 |