Mcalpines Fusiliers chords by Luke Kelly

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

  C majorC          FF
As down the glen came McAlpine's men
      C majorC    G+G     C majorC
With their shovels slung behind them
   C majorC        FF
'Twas in the pub they drank the sub
  FF     C/EC/E      FF
And up in the spike you'll find them
   C majorC           FF
They sweated blood and they washed down mud
   FF     C/EC/E    FF
With pints and quarts of beer
  C majorC        FF
And now we're on the road again
   C majorC     G+G   C majorC
With McAlpine's fusiliers

C majorC              FF
I stripped to the skin with Darky Flynn
   C majorC       G+G    C majorC
Way down upon the Isle of Grain
     C majorC           FF
With the Horseface Toole then I knew the rule
  FF      C/EC/E   FF
No money if you stop for rain
C majorC          FF
McAlpine's God was a well filled hod
   FF        C/EC/E   FF
Your shoulders cut to bits and seared
   C majorC        FF
And woe to he, he who looks for tea
   C majorC     G+G   C majorC
With McAlpine's fusiliers

C majorC              FF
I remember the day that the Bear O'Shea
   C majorC     G+G   C majorC
Fell into a concrete stairs
     C majorC            FF
What the Horseface said, when he saw him dead
FF            C/EC/E
Well, it wasn't what the rich call
FF
prayers
   C majorC          FF
I'm a navvy short was the one retort
   FF    C/EC/E   FF
That reached unto my ears
     C majorC            FF
When the going is rough, well you must be tough
   C majorC     G+G  C majorC
With McAlpine's fusiliers

C majorC                FF
I've worked 'till the sweat has had me bet
   C majorC    G+G    C majorC
With Russian, Czech and Pole
C majorC              FF
On shuddering jams up in the hydro dams
  FF       C/EC/E     FF
Or underneath the Thames in a hole
C majorC          FF
I grafted hard and I've got me cards
  FF        C/EC/E      FF
And many a ganger's fist across me ears
    C majorC           FF
If you pride your life, don't join by Christ
   C majorC      G+G  C majorC   C majorC G+G C majorC
With McAlpine's fusiliers