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Building Up And Tearing England Down
The Mary Wallopers
Key : C
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[Intro]
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C

[Verse 1]
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       C                          F           G
I have won a hero's name with McAlpine and Costain
         C                    F    G        C
With Fitzpatrick, Murphy, Ashe and Wimpey's gang
I've been often on the road, on my way to draw the dole
When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing
          Am              F              Em           E7
And I used  to think that God made the mixer pick and hod
        Am               G                    F
So that Paddy might know hell above the ground
         C                             F               G
I've had gangers big and tough tell me tear it all out rough
            C               F          G     C
When you're building up and tеaring England down

[Verse 2]
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    C                              F            G
I remember Carriеr Jack he wore a hod upon his back
       C                  F            G   C
And he swore he'd one day set the world on fire
His face we've never seen since his shovel it cut clean
Through the middle of a big high tension wire
      Am                    F            Em            E7
And I saw auld Balls McCaul, from the big  flyover fall
  Am            G                   F
Into a concrete mixer spinning round
          C                            F              G
Though it was not his intent, he got a fine head of cement
            C               F          G    C
When he was building up and tearing England down

[Verse 3]
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      C                       F                  G
I was on the hydro dam ah the day that Pat McCann
        C             F       G        C
Got the better of his stammer in a week
He fell from the shuttering jam and that poor auld stuttering man
He was never ever more inclined to speak
       Am              F            Em                  E7
And no more like Robin Hood will he roam through Cricklewood
        Am               G              F
Or dance  around the pubs of Camden Town
      C                         F             G
Ah let no man complain, that no navvy dies in vain
          C               F          G    C
When he's building up and tearing England down

[Interlude]
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C  | F | G  | C  | F  | G | C 
Am | F | Em | E7 | Am | G | F 
C  | F | G  | C  | F  | G | C 

[Verse 4]
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     C                          F                G
In a tunnel underground a young Limerick man was found
       C                 F     G       C
He was built into the new Victoria Line
When the bonus gang had past, sticking through the concrete cast
Was the face of little Charlie Joe Devine
        Am               F         Em                E7
And the ganger man McGurk said big Paddy ate the work
            Am                 G                   F
When the gas  pipe burst and he flew off the ground
        C                                            F          G
Oh they swear he said "Don't slack, I'll not be there until I'm back
        C               F         G     C
Keep on building up and tearing England down"

[Verse 5]
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   C                             F                 G
So come you navvies bold, who do tink that English gold
           C                 F     G     C
Is just waiting to be plucked from every sod
Or that the likes of you and me will ever get an OBE
Or a knighthood for good service to the hod
          Am                   F             Em            E7
They're a concrete master race, there to keep  you in your place
      Am            G                     F
And a ganger man to kick you to the ground
       C                        F               G
If you ever try to take part of what the bosses make
            C               F          G    C
When you're building up and tearing England down

[Outro]
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       C                        F               G
If you ever try to take part of what the bosses make
            C               F          G    C   F G C
When you're building up and tearing England down
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