Paddy Goes to Holyhead - Crooked Jack | Текст песни

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• Paddy Goes to Holyhead
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Come irishmen both young and stern
With adventure in your soul
There are better ways to spend your days
Than in working down a hole

The ganger´s blue-eyed pet was i
Big jack could do no wrong
And the reason simply was because
I could work hard hours and long

I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2
But they broke me across the back
By a name i´m known and it´s not my own
For they call me crooked jack

I´ve seen men old before their time
Their faces drawn and gray
I never thought so soon would mine
Be lined the self same way

I´ve cursed the day that i went away
To work on the hydro dams
For sweat and tears or hopes and fears
Bound up in shuttering jams

I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2
But they broke me across the back
By a name i´m known and it´s not my own
For they call me crooked jack

They say that honest toil is good
For the spirit and the soul
But believe me boys it´s for sweat and blood
That they want you down a hole

I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2
But they broke me across the back
By a name i´m known and it´s not my own
For they call me crooked jack