Neck Lyrics
Mcalpine's Fusileers Lyrics
Twas down the glen came McAlpines men,
with their shovels slung behind them,
ah-twas in the pub that they drank the sub,
or down in the spike youll find them,
well they sweated blood and they washed-down mud,
with pints and quarts of beer,
and now were on the road again,
with McAlpines Fusileers!
I stripped to the skin with Darkie Finn,
way down upon The Isle of Grain,
with Horse-face Toole,
I learnt the rule:
no money if you stop for rain!
For McAlpines God is a well-filled hod,
your shoulders cut-to-bits and seared,
and woe to he who went to look for tea!
With McAlpines Fusileers!
I remember the day that The Bear OShea
fell into a concrete stairs,
what Horse-Face said when he saw him dead:
it wasnt what The Rich call prayers!
Im a navvy short! was the one retort,
that fell unto my ears,
when the going is rough then you must be tough!
With McAlpines Fusileers!
I worked til the sweat near had me bet,
with Russian, Czech and Pole,
at shuttering jams up in the hydro-dams,
or underneath The Thames in a hole!
Ive grafted hard, and Ive got me cards,
and many a gangers fist across me ears,
so if you pride your life, dont join by Christ
with McAlpines Fusileers!