Crooked Jack letra

Come Irishmen both young and stern
With adventure in your soul
There are better ways to spend your days
Than in working down a hole
I was tall and true all of 6 foot 2
But they broke me across the back
By a name I'm known and it's not my own
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've seen men old before their time
Their faces drawn and gray
But I never thought so soon would mine
Be lined the self-same way
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
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

Dick Gaughan - Letras

• A Different Kind Of Love Song
• All The King's Horses
• Amandla!
• As I Walked On The Road
• Auchengeich Disaster
• Ballad Of '84
• Ballad Of Accounting
• Banks Of Green Willow
• Blantyre Explosion
• Bleacher Lassie o Kelvinhaugh
• Bonnie Banks o Fordie
• Both Sides The Tweed
• Call It Freedom
• Cam Ye Ower Frae France
• Collier Laddie
• Come Gie's a Sang
• Companeros
• Craigie Hill
• Crooked Jack
• Different Drum
• Dowie Dens o Yarrow
• Drunken Rent Collector
• Erin Go Bragh
• Ewan And The Gold
• Fair Flouer o Northumberland
• Farewell To Cotia
• Fine Horseman
• Four Green Fields
• Freedom Come Aa Ye
• Games People Play
• Gillie Mor
• Glenlogie / Bonnie Jeannie O Bethelnie
• Gone, Gonna Rise Again
• Green Linnet
• Jamie Foyers
• Jock O Hazeldean
• John Harrison's Hands
• John MacLean March
• Johnny Miner
• Lord Randal
• Lough Erne (The Rambling Irishman)
• Lucky For Some
• Ludlow Massacre
• MacCrimmon's Lament
• Maggie Lauder
• Muir And The Master Builder
• My Donald
• No Cause For Alarm
• No Gods (And Precious Few Heroes)
• Now Westlin Winds
• One Miner's Life
• Outlaws And Dreamers
• Pound a Week Rise
• Prisoner 562
• Raglan Road
• Rattlin Roarin Willie
• Reconciliation
• Recruited Collier
• Revolution
• Rigs o Rye
• Sail On
• Schooldays End
• Seven Good Soldiers
• Shipwreck
• Snows They Melt The Soonest
• Son Of Man
• Song For Ireland
• Song Of Choice
• Stand Up For Judas
• Strong Women Rule Us All
• Such a Parcel o Rogues In A Nation
• That's The Way The River Runs
• Thatchers o Glenrae
• The Devil And Pastor Jack
• The Earl Of Errol
• The Father's Song
• The Gipsy Laddies
• The Granemore Hare
• The Hunter Dunne
• The Three Healths
• The Workers' Song
• The Yew Tree
• Think Again
• Tom Joad
• Tom Paine's Bones
• Turn, Turn, Turn
• Victor Jara Of Chile
• Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
• We Got The Rock'n'roll
• What You Do With What You've Got
• When I'm Gone
• Which Side Are You On?
• Why Old Men Cry
• Willie o Winsbury
• Your Daughters And Your Sons