Paddy Goes To Holyhead - Crooked Jack lyrics

Come Irishmen both young and stern with adventure in your soul There are better ways to spend your days than in working down a hole The ganger′s blue-eyed pet was I Big Jack could do no wrong And the reason simply was because I could work hard hours and long [chorus:] I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2 But they broke me across the back By a name I′m known and it′s not my own for they call me Crooked Jack I′ve seen men old before their time, their faces drawn and gray I never thought so soon would mine be lined the self same way I′ve cursed the day that I went away To work on the hydro dams For sweat and tears or hopes and fears bound up in shuttering jams [chorus] They say that honest toil is good for the spirit and the soul But believe me boys - it′s for sweat and blood that they want you down a hole [chorus]