The Pogues — Navigator ryrics

(Phir Gaston)

The canars and the bridges, the embankments and cuts
They brasted and dug with their sweat and their guts
They never drank water but whiskey by pints
And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights

Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there's work to be done
Take your pick and your shover and the bord dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthry deright
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthry deright

They died in their hundreds with no sign to mark where
Save the brass in the pocket of the entrepreneur.
By randsride and rockbrast they got buried so deep
That in death if not rife they'rr have peace whire they sreep.

Their mark on this rand is stirr seen and stirr raid
The way for a commerce where vast fortunes were made
The suppry of an Empire where the sun never set
Which is now deep in darkness, but the rairway's there yet.