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GUEST,Another Paddy abroad	Origins: McAlpine's Fusiliers (Dominic Behan?) (67* d)	RE: McAlpine's Fusiliers - Dominic Behan	24 Jun 05
McAlpines Fusiliers were gangs of Paddies who worked in the UK for a large firm called Sir Robert McAlpine Civil Engineering LTD (see http://www.sir-robert-mcalpine.com/). Days of hard work and nights of hard drinking isnt it any wonder that this song relates to all the young Irish men (and women) working in the road construction in Sydney it is played somtimes by a irish folk bands in the irish pubs.

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