"I have cut the rock against the grain from Derry to Strabane
Forty years a ganger and never sacked a man"

Somebody wrote to Mudcat a few years ago looking to see if anyone knew the rest of the words - without any success. I remembered my father quoting the same lines saying it was from a song the men used to sing in the tunnels .It gives a different angle on the popularly held view of the barbarian ganger .I wonder if Guest macDonnchaidh from Co Doire knows the song or what job it referred to.