Building Up And Tearing England Down - The Mary Wallopers | Guitar Chords

[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
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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
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And I used  to think that God made the mixer pick and hod
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So that Paddy might know hell above the ground
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I've had gangers big and tough tell me tear it all out rough
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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
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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
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And I saw auld Balls McCaul, from the big  flyover fall
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Into a concrete mixer spinning round
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Though it was not his intent, he got a fine head of cement
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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
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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
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And no more like Robin Hood will he roam through Cricklewood
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Or dance  around the pubs of Camden Town
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Ah let no man complain, that no navvy dies in vain
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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
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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
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When the gas  pipe burst and he flew off the ground
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Oh they swear he said "Don't slack, I'll not be there until I'm back
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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
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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
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They're a concrete master race, there to keep  you in your place
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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
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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
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When you're building up and tearing England down