[The boss sent us to tell his wife] Just how Big Jim had lost his life; She said, Bring him in to town, We said, We would but he ain't yet come down! The very next day, we heard a cry, There was Big Jim, falling from the sky; He landed on a big rock dump, And said, By God, that's a helluva bump! Or something like that - from a recording by Tim Rogers & Barry Luft - 'Songs of the Iron Rail', maybe? - all Canadian songs (or variants). In their song, it's "the CP [i.e., Canadian Pacific] railway", and the cook is "a Bluenose [Nova Scotian] man". And there's a doctor who gives you pills that "send you over the Eagle Hills" - which sounds either extremely delightful or unpleasant, depending on your turn of mind, I suppose. Interestingly, it also has a re-working of this verse from Mick on the Railroad, given above: They gave me a drill to drill the hole, And then confound my Irish sowl, And blast the ship that brought me over, To work upon the railroad. [He'd ... and curse and scold, He'd damn and blast our Irish souls; He'd damn the ship that brought us through, To work on the CP Railway crew.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCAeqEBhzY&t=1118s
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