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POOR PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY PLUS
547-552, "Paddy Works on the Railway" (1 text plus extended excerpts to illustrate variations in the song and a broadside print of "Mick Upon the Railroad," 1 tune) KEYWORDS: railroading work marriage death drink hardtimesĬohen-LongSteelRail, pp. to work upon the (railway)." He recalls the hard work, courting and losing a wife, and the drink he uses to relieve his burdensĮARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag) there is a clear reference from 1864 in a manuscript from the clipper _Young Australia_ It is #208 in the Roud folksong index.Paddy Works on the Railway Paddy Works on the Railway DESCRIPTION: Paddy describes the working conditions on the railway: "In (1841), I put me corderoy britches on. The Spinners sang a different version of this song under the title 'Fillimiooriay' the song has travelled widely, as witnessed by the existence of American versions with titles like 'Poor Paddy Works on the Railroad' and 'Poor Paddy Works on the Erie'. The Daniel O'Connell referred to in the fifth verse was the Irish Member of Parliament who lived from 1775-1847, campaigner for Catholic Empancipation and the separation of Ireland from the Union. In spite of their essential role for the economy, however, at the time they were more often associated with criminality and disorder, as noted by Roger Swift in The Irish in Britain, who describes "three days of fierce fighting between 300 Irish navvies and 240 English railway labourers engaged on the line of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway" in 1839. Irish navvies in their thousands were responsible for work on many of the wonders that made Liverpool a great 19th century power, including the construction Liverpool-Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city passenger railway.
Bang, bang went the guns, and twice more, for we were carrying the mails, and good-bye to old Liverpool, and the crowds which lined the pierhead cheered, for the Red Jacket was already a famous ship, and it was hoped she would make a record passage." 'Heave it a-peak and cathead it,' comes from the quarter-deck, and the tug retriever forges ahead and tightens the tow-rope as we gather way. 'The anchor is away, sir,' shouts the Chief Officer. To work on the railway, the railway, the railway, ' Heave up the anchor and get away.' Aye, aye, sir.' 'Now then, my boys, man the windlass,' shouts The crew were mustered on the forecastle, under the 1st Mate, Mr. "On the morning of the 20th November, 1857, I embarked by a tender from the
Edward Keble Chatterton, in a 1923 book called The Mercantile Marine, quotes Liverpool shipowner Sir William B. that collected from Newton Heath Railway Shed, Manchester and also published by MacColl) that what we have here is a version used at sea.Īlthough now very much sung by people with their feet on dry land - slightly further south in Cheshire it was even popular with fans of Crewe Alexandra ("the railwaymen") - this song has a long Liverpool association from its use as a capstan shanty. Gibb Schreffler, whose knowledge of shanties is greater than my own, has made me aware that the tune here is very similar not only to that used by Stan Hugill, but also one published by Whall in Ships, sea songs, and shanties, so it seems (possibly unlike other variations e.g. A song celebrating (or should I say commiserating?) the Irish navvy at work this version was collected from Albert Gillmore of Birkenhead and published in The Shuttle and Cage: Industrial Folk Ballads edited by Ewan MacColl.
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