Crooked Jack
Blakeley & Son
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Come Irishmen both young and stern With adventure in your soul There are better ways to spend your days Than working down a hole I was tall and true all of six foot two 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 The ganger's blue-eyed boy was I Big Jack could do no wrong And the reason simply was because I could work hard hours and long I was tall and true all of six foot two 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 grey But I never thought so soon would mine Be lined the self-same way I was tall and true all of six foot two 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 curse the day I went away To work on the hydro dams Our sweat and tears, our hopes and fears Bound up in shuttering jams I was tall and true all of six foot two 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 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 the hole I was tall and true all of six foot two 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
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Written by: Edward Blakeley, Garry Blakeley
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