There are a few traditional songs related to the canals and the navvies. The Bold Navigators has several of them on the record and you can find them some in print in eg Roy Palmer's A Touch On The Times (The New Navigation, Navvy on the Line, The Navigators) and Jon Raven's Victoria's Inferno (Come Now Begin Delving, All Hail This Grand Day, Birmingham Lads, Manchester Ship Canal, The Tommy Note, Cruise of the Calabar).

Mick