Navigator
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1. The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,
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they blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts.
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They never drank
water but whiskey by pints,
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and the shanty towns rang with their song
and their fights.
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Navigator, navigator, rise up and be strong,
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the morning is here and there’s work
to be done.
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Take your pick and your shovel and your bold dynamite,
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for to shift a few tons of this
earthly delight.
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Yes, to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.
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2. They died in their
hundreds with no sign to mark where,
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save the brass in the pocket of the
entrepreneur.
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By landslide and rockblast they got buried so deep,
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that in death if
not life they’ll have peace while they sleep.
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3. Their mark on this land is
still seen and still laid,
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the way for a commerce where vast fortunes
were made.
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The supply of an
empire where the sun never set,
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which
is now deep in darkness, but the railway’s there yet.
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(The Pogues)