Verse
Fm D# Fm D#
I am a young man. I'm in my prime,
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And I work as hard as any man can,
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Making a way for a railway line,
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I’m a rough and a tumble navvying man.
[Chorus]
Fm D#
With a billy cocked hat,
Fm D#
F silken waistcoat,
Fm D# A# Fm
Corduroy trousers tied at the knee,
Fm D# Fm D#
F shovel, a pick, and a one-wheel barrow,
C7 Fm
And a jug full of gin when I takes me ease.
[Verse 2]
Fm D# Fm D#
Living in a shanty, feeding fleas,
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Shovelling muck all through the day,
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For Maggoty meat and mouldy peas,
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And the tommy-shop takes nearly all my pay.
[Chorus]
Fm D#
With a billy cocked hat,
Fm D#
F silken waistcoat,
Fm D# A# Fm
Corduroy trousers tied at the knee,
Fm D# Fm D#
F shovel, a pick, and a one-wheel barrow,
C7 Fm
And a jug full of gin when I takes me ease.
[Verse 3]
Fm D# Fm D#
Knocks of Sunday, goes on the randy,
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Finds my way to the nearest town.
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If I meet a peeler with 'is truncheon handy,
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Well I ups with me fists and I knocks 'im down.
[Chorus]
Fm D#
With a billy cocked hat,
Fm D#
F silken waistcoat,
Fm D# A# Fm
Corduroy trousers tied at the knee,
Fm D# Fm D#
F shovel, a pick, and a one-wheel barrow,
C7 Fm
And a jug full of gin when I takes me ease.
[Verse 3]
Fm D# Fm D#
Jumped on the broom with boss eyed Kate
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And we both got drunk on two month’s pay
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Me money all gone and I couldn’t get slate
C7
So I sold her for a shilling to a gangers mate
[Chorus]
Fm D#
With a billy cocked hat,
Fm D#
F silken waistcoat,
Fm D# A# Fm
Corduroy trousers tied at the knee,
Fm D# Fm D#
F shovel, a pick, and a one-wheel barrow,
C7 Fm
And a jug full of gin when I takes me ease.
[Verse 4]
Fm D# Fm D#
Blasting tunnels where the line runs deep,
Fm D# A# Fm
Or digging out bodies where the roof has fell,
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There's many a brave navvy takes a long, long sleep,
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The reward for 'is labour's a funeral bell.
[Chorus]
Fm D#
With a billy cocked hat,
Fm D#
F silken waistcoat,
Fm D# A# Fm
Corduroy trousers tied at the knee,
Fm D# Fm D#
F shovel, a pick, and a one-wheel barrow,
C7 Fm
And a jug full of gin when I takes me ease.
[Verse 5]
Fm D# Fm D#
When the contract's finished and the navvy's have gone,
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Then the trains will run down the tracks we’ve laid.
Fm D# Fm D#
And all will marvel at what was done
C7
By the lads who served at the navvying trade.
[Chorus]
Fm D#
With a billy cocked hat,
Fm D#
F silken waistcoat,
Fm D# A# Fm
Corduroy trousers tied at the knee,
Fm D# Fm D#
F shovel, a pick, and a one-wheel barrow,
C7 Fm
And a jug full of gin when I takes me ease.
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