The Boys That Broke the Ground / Ortiguera

歌詞

If you're a thinking man at all, it stands to reason That the Clydesdale and the cart have had their day Though they've served the country weel for many's the season The narrow boats did take their trade away But to float a barge's keel You need the muscle sweat and steel Of a thousand navvies working on the line And wi' our picks all on our shoulders And our shovels by our side We're the boys that broke the ground To join the Forth and Clyde And there were Geordies at the sides of Donegal men There were bothy lads from Breekin and Montrose There were highlanders from Beaulieu and Bredalbean Wha'd start the day with whiskey in their braws But frae Dublin and Dundee Every mother's son agreed That the work would mak' ye old before your time And wi' our picks all on our shoulders And our shovels by our side We're the boys that broke the ground To join the Forth and Clyde Well, we dug the cut frae Grangemouth up tae Boland Frae the German Sea to the Carren Foundry door Oh, the faster they could bring the ore and coal in Then the faster they could make the cannon roar But to watch the waters run When the delvin' was all done Was a sight I'd walk a hundred miles to see And wi' our picks all on our shoulders And our shovels by our side We're the boys that broke the ground To join the Forth and Clyde So come all you thinking men whate'er your station And if you marvel at the works o' engineers Drink a health unto the navvies o' the nation And the way they've changed your fortune o'er the years Jamaica rum and Baltic herrin' And the shawl your lady's wearin' They all cam' travelling doon our broad canal And wi' our picks all on our shoulders And our shovels by our side We're the boys that broke the ground To join the Forth and Clyde And wi' our picks all on our shoulders And our shovels by our side We're the boys that broke the ground To join the Forth and Clyde