POGUES - Navigator lyrics

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