The Reivers sang this and I think we got it from the Clancy Bros. album "Freeborn Man". All I have is a cassette copy with no information about it. A little different from Aidan's version. Each Chorus is slightly different. I like Aidan's verse that is not in this version. At the time we learned this I was separated from my wife and four kids and sending them what money I could. We never did this in public as I couldn't sing it without the tears coming.

COME MY LITTLE SON

Come my little son and I
Will tell you what we'll do.
Undress yourself and get into bed
And a tale I'll tell to you.
It's all about your daddy, he's
A man you seldom see,
for he's had to roam far away from home,
Away from you and me.

CHO: But remember lad, he's still your dad
    Though he's working far away;
    Working day and night upon the site
    Of England's motorway.

To buy your shoes, your daddy built
A length of railway track.
He built a hydro dam to buy
The clothes upon your back.
The motor highway buys the food,
But the wages soon are spent,
And though we have to live apart
It helps to pay the rent.

CHO: But remember lad, he's still your dad,
    And he's working far away,
    In the cold and heat, eighty hours a week,
    On England's motorway.

Sure we need your daddy here
And sure it would be fine
To have him working nearer home
And to see him all the time.
But beggars can't be choosers
And we have to pay our load
For we need the money your daddy earns
Working on the road.

CHO: But remember lad, he's still your dad
    And he'll soon be here to stay
    For a week or two with me and you
    When he's built the motorway.

Reiver 2