Mcalpines Fusiliers

[00:02.83] As down the glen came McAlpine's men
[00:07.35] With their shovels slung behind them
[00:10.90] 'Twas in the pub they drank the sub
[00:15.52] And up in the spike you'll find them
[00:20.02] They sweated blood and they washed down mud
[00:23.65] With pints and quarts of beer
[00:27.22] And now we're on the road again
[00:31.86] With McAlpine's fusiliers
[00:36.30] I stripped to the skin with Darky Flynn
[00:39.99] Down upon the Isle of Grain
[00:43.65] With the Horseface Toole, sure I knew the rules
[00:48.18] No money if you stop for rain
[00:52.69] McAlpine's God was a well filled hod
[00:56.25] Your shoulders cut to bits and seared
[01:00.84] And woe to he who to looks for tea
[01:04.44] With McAlpine's fusiliers
[01:08.94] Hoo-wheey-ho
[01:11.64] Hooo-ho
[01:13.49] Hoo-wheey-ho
[01:15.34] Hooo-ho
[01:17.11] I remember the day when the Bear O'Shea
[01:20.78] Fell into a concrete stairs
[01:25.22] What the Horseface said, when he found him dead
[01:28.92] Well, it wasn't what the rich call prayers
[01:33.44] I'm a navvy short was the one retort
[01:37.06] That reached unto my ears
[01:40.67] When the going is rough, well you must be tough
[01:45.29] With McAlpine's fusiliers
[01:49.78] Hoo-wheey-ho
[01:51.52] Hooo-ho
[01:54.32] Hoo-wheey-ho
[01:56.18] Hooo-ho
[01:58.18] Hoo-wheey-ho
[01:59.90] Hooo-ho
[02:01.70] Hoo-wheey-ho
[02:04.46] Hooo-ho
[02:21.73] I've worked till the sweat when it had me bet
[02:26.36] With Russians, Czechs and Poles
[02:29.92] On shuddering jams up in the hydro dams
[02:34.55] Or underneath the Thames in a hole
[02:38.15] I grafted hard and I've got me cards
[02:41.78] And many a ganger's fist across me ears
[02:46.27] If you value your life, well don't join by Christ
[02:49.96] With McAlpine's fusiliers
[02:53.57] If you value your life, well don't join by Christ
[02:58.06] With McAlpine's fusiliers
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