Building Up And Tearing England Down chords by The Mary Wallopers

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C majorC

Verse 1:
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I have won a heroes name with McAlpine and Costain
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With Fitzpatrick
Murphy
Ashe and Wimpey's gang.


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I've been often on the road, on my way to draw the dole
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When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing.
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I used to think that God made the mixer pick and hod
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So that Paddy might know hell above the ground.
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I've had gangers big and tough tell me tear it all out rough
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When you're building up and tearing England down.

Verse 2:
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I remember Carrier Jack with his hod upon his back
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How he swore one day he'd set the world on fire.
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But his face they've never seen since his shovel it cut clean
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Through the middle of a big high tension wire.
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I saw auld Balls Mccaul, from the big flyover fall
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Into a concrete mixer spinning round
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Although it was not his intent, he got a fine head of cement
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When he was building up and tearing England down.

Verse 3:
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I was on the hydro dam the day that Pat Mccann
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Got the better of his stammer in a week.
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He fell from the shuttering jam and that poor auld stuttering man
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He was never ever more inclined to speak.
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No more like Robin Hood will he roam through Cricklewood
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Or dance around the pubs of Camden Town.
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But let no man complain, no Paddy dies in vain
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When he's building up and tearing England down.

Solo:
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C majorC   FF G+G C majorC
   FF G+G
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Verse 4:
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In a tunnel underground a young Limerick man was found
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He was built into the new Victoria Line.
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When the pouring gang had past, sticking through the concrete cast
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Was the face of little Charlie Joe Devine.
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And the ganger man McGurk said big Paddy ate the work
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When the gas main burst and he flew off the ground
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Oh they swear he said "Don't slack
I'll not be here until I'm back"
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Keep on building up and tearing England down.

Verse 5:
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So come all you navvies bold, who think that English gold
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Is just waiting to be taken from each sod.
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Or that the likes of you and me could ever get an OBE
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Or a knighthood for good service to the hod.
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They've the concrete master race, to keep you in your place
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and a ganger man to kick you to the ground.
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If you ever try to take part of what the bosses make
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When they're building up and tearing England down.
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If you ever try to take part of what the bosses make
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When they're building up and tearing England down.