Name: A navvie on the Great Western Railway
Duration: P00H04M16S
Description: This song is about the men and women who built the infrastructure that underpinned the development of the UK in our Victorian industrial Revolution. We need that energy and pride to rebuild a new infrastructure, a new system fit for the Fourth industrial Revolution that will sweep over the 21st century.

A navvie on the Great Western Railway

from Forty Years in the Making by Eddy Morton

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This song is about the men and women who built the infrastructure that underpinned the development of the UK in our Victorian industrial Revolution. We need that energy and pride to rebuild a new infrastructure, a new system fit for the Fourth industrial Revolution that will sweep over the 21st century.

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A Navvie On the Great Western Railway

Oh me name is John Jones
and I curse these old bones
In the morning its hard for to rise
For I work with my hands
and I’ve travelled o’er these lands
I’m a navvie on the Great Western railway

It was built in the main
By the blood sweat and pain
Of the people like me and my brothers
For with iron and with steel
And with muscle and the wheel
I’m a navvie on the Great western railway

And we live for the work
Though its tough never shirk
And in in hard times we lived for tomorrow
This country made whole
By the blood and coal
Of the navvies on the Great Western railway

We cut through the earth
Never doubting our worth
Built bridges over valleys hundreds high
Tunnelled through the hill
Of beer we drank our fill
I’m a navvie on the Great Western railway

We built our own towns
But we never settled down
made camp on the line of surveyors
we fought with the law
drove the line shore to shore
I’m a navvie on the Great Western railway

Oh me name is John Jones
And I curse these old bones
In the morning its hard for to rise
For I work with my hands
and I’ve travelled o’er these lands
I’m a navvie on the Great western railway

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from Forty Years in the Making, released September 30, 2020

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Eddy Morton Stourbridge, UK

As the founder member of The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils Eddy Morton toured the UK and Europe constantly for eleven years releasing 8 albums During which time the band appeared at every major Folk/Roots Festival in the UK and Europe including Cambridge, Cropredy, Skagen, Guildford, Dranouter, The Badentreffen and many more. His latest solo release Rainbow Man is available on iTunes ... more

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