Building Up And Tearing England Down-The Dubliners/Luke Kelly

[ti:Building Up And Tearing England Down] [ar:The Dubliners/Luke Kelly] [al:Prodigal Sons] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Building Up And Tearing England Down - The Dubliners/Luke Kelly [00:01.65]Oh I won a hero's name with McAlpine and Costain [00:05.86] [00:06.53]With Fitz Patrick Murphy Ash and the Wimpy's gang [00:09.38] [00:11.33]I've been often on the road on me way to draw the dole [00:15.10] [00:15.74]When there's nothing left to do for johnny laing [00:18.60] [00:20.45]And I used to think that god made the mixer pick and hod [00:23.89] [00:24.43]So a paddy might no hell above the ground [00:27.17] [00:28.85]I've had ganger's big and tough [00:30.99]Tell me tear that hole out rough [00:32.70] [00:33.40]When you're building up and tearing England down [00:36.43] [00:37.97]In a tunnel under ground a young limerick man was found [00:42.34]He was build in to the new Victoria line [00:44.55] [00:46.83]When the bonus gang had passed sticking from a concrete cast [00:50.42] [00:51.18]Was the face of little charlie Joe divine [00:53.27] [00:55.59]And the ganger man McGurk said big paddy ate's the work [00:59.14] [00:59.85]When the gasmain blew and he flew off the ground [01:02.45] [01:04.11]Oh they swore heed send down slack [01:06.20]I'll not be there until I'm back [01:07.95] [01:08.72]Keep on building up and tearing England down [01:11.32] [01:13.11]I was on the shuttering dam on the day that jack Mccann [01:16.79] [01:17.45]Got the better of his stammer in a week [01:19.56] [01:21.65]He fell from the shuttering dam [01:23.36] [01:24.04]And that poor old stuttering man [01:25.66] [01:26.23]He was never ever more inclined to speak [01:28.74] [01:30.61]And I saw old balls Mccoll with a big flyover fall [01:34.04] [01:34.88]Into a concrete mixer spinning round [01:37.56] [01:39.14]Tough it wasn't his intent he got a fine head of cement [01:42.73] [01:43.49]When he was building up and tearing England down [01:46.00] [01:47.96]I remember carrier jack with his hod upon his back [01:51.75] [01:52.26]How he swore one day he'd set the world on fire [01:54.96] [01:56.64]Well his face they've never seen [01:58.72]Since his shovel it cut clean [02:00.97]To the middle of the big high tension wires [02:03.69] [02:05.23]Oh the more like robin hood well he wrung trough cricklewood [02:08.62] [02:09.39]Or dance around the pubs in camdon town [02:11.72] [02:13.00]Oh but let no man proclaim sure old pad' could die in vain [02:17.33] [02:17.84]When he's building up and tearing England down [02:20.71] [02:57.01]So come all you navvy's bold [02:58.77] [02:59.33]Do not think that English gold [03:00.84] [03:01.43]Is just waiting to be taken from each sod [03:03.69] [03:05.63]By the likes of you and me will never get the o b e [03:09.09] [03:09.76]Or a knighthood for good service to the hod [03:12.15] [03:13.89]It's the concrete master race [03:15.89]That would keep you in your place [03:17.51] [03:18.03]And a ganger man to kick you to the ground [03:20.33] [03:22.07]If you ever try to take part of what the bosses made [03:25.64] [03:27.06]When you're building up and tearing england down