Mcalpines Fusiliers chords by Luke Kelly

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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

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

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

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