
Date of issue: 12.02.2007
Record label: Concord, Savoy
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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The Foggy Dew | 2007 |
The Rocky Road To Dublin | 2007 |
Brown Dog ft. Jefff Dellisanti | 2001 |
[Don't Think I'll] Love Anymore ft. Young Dubliners | 2009 |
If I Should Fall From Grace With God | 2007 |
Waxies Dargle | 2004 |
The Leaving Of Liverpool | 2007 |
Rosie | 2010 |
Touch The Sky | 2004 |
Say It's So | 2004 |
Happy | 2004 |
Evermore | 2004 |
Real World | 2004 |
In the End | 2009 |
Buy you a Life | 2009 |
Saints and Sinners | 2009 |
Confusion | 2004 |
Weila Waile | 2007 |
Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore | 2007 |
A Pair Of Brown Eyes | 2007 |