Here Come the Navvies

X:1     %Music
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 

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