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Mcalpines Fusiliers by Luke Kelly
Mcalpines Fusiliers
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
C F
As down the glen came McAlpine's men
C G C
With their shovels slung behind them
C F
'Twas in the pub they drank the sub
F C/E F
And up in the spike you'll find them
C F
They sweated blood and they washed down mud
F C/E F
With pints and quarts of beer
C F
And now we're on the road again
C G C
With McAlpine's fusiliers
C F
I stripped to the skin with Darky Flynn
C G C
Way down upon the Isle of Grain
C F
With the Horseface Toole then I knew the rule
F C/E F
No money if you stop for rain
C F
McAlpine's God was a well filled hod
F C/E F
Your shoulders cut to bits and seared
C F
And woe to he, he who looks for tea
C G C
With McAlpine's fusiliers
C F
I remember the day that the Bear O'Shea
C G C
Fell into a concrete stairs
C F
What the Horseface said, when he saw him dead
F C/E
Well, it wasn't what the rich call
F
prayers
C F
I'm a navvy short was the one retort
F C/E F
That reached unto my ears
C F
When the going is rough, well you must be tough
C G C
With McAlpine's fusiliers
C F
I've worked 'till the sweat has had me bet
C G C
With Russian, Czech and Pole
C F
On shuddering jams up in the hydro dams
F C/E F
Or underneath the Thames in a hole
C F
I grafted hard and I've got me cards
F C/E F
And many a ganger's fist across me ears
C F
If you pride your life, don't join by Christ
C G C C G C
With McAlpine's fusiliers
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