Here Come the Navvies

X:1
T:Here Come the Navvies
B:Singing Together, Spring 1981, BBC Publications
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
M:6/8     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:Eb
E |B,2 E E2 E |EEF G2 A |B2 c B2 G | A3
w:I am a nav-i-ga-tion-al and I come from Coun-ty Cork,
G2 A |B2 E E2 E |E2 F G2 E |F2 D B,2 C | _D3-_D z
w:And I had to leave me na-tive home to find a job of  work. *
B, |B,2 E E2 E |E2 F G2 A |B2 c B2 G | A3
w:The crops were bad in Ire-land and the tax too much to pay
G2 A |B2 e e2 f |e2 c B2 A |G2 E F2 D | E6 |
w:And so here I am in Eng-land dig-ging up the wat-er-way.
_d3 d2 c |_d B2-B3 |_d2 c B2 G | A3- A2
w:Here come the nav-vies * Out to earn their pay,
 A |B2 E E2 E |E2 F G2 E |F2 D C2 C | _D3-_D2
w:We work with bar-row, Plough and spade to clear the cut a-way,
C |B,2 E E2 E |E2 F G2 A |B2 c B2 G | A3
w: And when we put the pud-dle in, With sweat we wet the clay,
G2 A |B2 e e2 f |e2 c B2 A |G2 E F2 D | E3-E2 z |]
w:And we scar the face of Eng-land for to make the wa-ter-way
W:I am a navigational and I come from County Cork,
W:And I had to leave me native home to find a job of work.
W:The crops were bad in Ireland and the tax too much to pay
W:And so here I am in England digging up the waterway.
W:
W:Once I was a ploughman and I did a decent job,
W:I worked from dawn 'til darkness just to earn me copule o' bob,
W:But when the praties died on us I couldn't pay me way,
W:And so here I am in England ploughing up the waterway.
W:
W:The lads who built the waterway they are a motley crew,
W:And when we've sweated all day long we like a drink or two,
W:The local folk don't take to use, but still I'm proud to say,
W:In years to come our monument will be the waterway.
W:

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