Mcalpine's Fusiliers-Young Dubliners

[ti:Mcalpine's Fusiliers] [ar:Young Dubliners] [al:With All Due Respect - The Irish Sessions] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mcalpine's Fusiliers - Young Dubliners [00:08.18]As down the glen came McAlpine's men [00:11.28] [00:11.84]With their shovels slung behind them [00:14.48] [00:15.72]It was in the pub they drank the sub [00:19.47]And up in the spike you'll find them [00:22.26] [00:23.38]They sweated blood and [00:25.29]They washed down mud [00:26.70] [00:27.21]With pints and quarts of beer [00:29.72] [00:31.15]And now we're on the road again [00:34.75]With McAlpine's Fusiliers [00:37.84] [00:42.70]I stripped to the skin with the Darky Flynn [00:45.82] [00:46.35]Way down upon the Isle of Grain [00:49.23] [00:50.23]With the Horseface Toole I knew the rule [00:53.44] [00:54.04]No money if you stop for rain [00:56.62] [00:57.96]When McAlpine's god was a well filled hod [01:01.75]With your shoulders cut to bits and seared [01:04.54] [01:05.66]And woe to he who looks for tea [01:09.43]With McAlpine's Fusiliers [01:12.29] [01:17.00]I remember the day that the Bear O'Shea [01:20.09] [01:20.93]Fell into a concrete stairs [01:23.64] [01:24.55]What the Horseface said [01:26.67]When he saw him dead [01:28.11] [01:28.65]Well it wasn't what the rich call prayers [01:31.42] [01:32.60]I'm a navvy short was the one retort [01:36.27]That reached unto my ears [01:39.18] [01:39.87]When the going is rough [01:41.83]Well you must be tough [01:43.34] [01:43.96]With McAlpine's Fusiliers [01:46.97] [02:18.66]I've worked till the sweat [02:20.49]Near had me bet [02:21.77] [02:22.36]With Russian Czech and Pole [02:25.34] [02:26.25]On shuddering jams up [02:28.48]In the hydro dams [02:29.54] [02:30.09]Or underneath the Thames in a hole [02:33.01] [02:33.99]I grafted hard and I've got me cards [02:37.67]And many a gangers fist across me ears [02:40.41] [02:41.53]If you pride your life [02:43.18]Don't join by Christ [02:45.36]With McAlpine's Fusiliers [02:48.33] [02:48.95]If you pride your life [02:50.87]Don't join by Christ [02:53.05]With McAlpine's Fusiliers [02:56.05] [02:56.63]With McAlpine's Fusiliers