Crooked Jack-Súnas

[ti:Crooked Jack] [ar:Súnas] [al:Celtic Road] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.46]Crooked Jack - Súnas [00:01.76]Written by：Sunas/Dominic Behan [00:02.81] [00:23.65]Come on Irish men both young and stern [00:27.11]With adventure in your soul [00:30.93]There are better ways to spend your days [00:34.90]Than in working down a hole [00:38.90]I was tall and true all of six foot two [00:42.73]But they broke me across the back [00:46.64]By a name I'm known and it's not my own [00:50.62]For they call me crooked Jack [00:54.78]The ganger's blue eyed boy was I [00:58.34]Being Jack could do no wrong [01:02.16]And the reason simply was because [01:06.20]I could work hard hours and long [01:10.15]I curse the day and I went away [01:13.89]To work on hydro dams [01:17.23] [01:17.83]All our sweat and tears [01:19.53]Our hopes and fears bound up with shuttering jams [01:25.00] [01:25.51]I was tall and true all of six foot two [01:29.35]But they broke me across the back [01:33.39]By a name I'm known and it's not my own [01:37.34]For they call me crooked Jack [01:41.24] [02:12.76]I've seen men old before their time [02:16.28]Their faces drawn and gray [02:19.57] [02:20.13]But I never thought so soon be mine [02:24.06]Be lined the self same way [02:27.87]Well they say that honest toil is good [02:31.67]For the spirit and the soul [02:35.50]But the leave me boys [02:37.41]It's for sweat and blood [02:39.43]That they want you down the hole [02:43.11]I was tall and true all of six foot two [02:47.15]But they broke me across the back [02:51.02]By a name I'm known and it's not my own [02:55.05]For they call me crooked Jack