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Subject: Lyr Req: Navvy on the line. From: GUEST,Jim I Date: 07 Jun 03 - 11:24 PM Has anyone got the words that go with the Irish ?hornpipe known as "Navvy on the Line". Some bits go "I'm a ripper, I'm a stripper, I'm a navvy on the line"... I've tried several sites without success. Jim |
Subject: Lyr Add: NAVVY ON THE LINE From: GUEST,Q Date: 08 Jun 03 - 12:45 AM I'm a nipper, I'm a ripper, I'm a navvy on the line. All the ladies love the navvies, And the navvies love the fun, There'll be plenty little babies When the railway's done. From The Traditional Ballad Index cufresno, an Australian dance tune. Two verses in "Folk Songs of Australia": Lyr. Add: NAVVY ON THE LINE I'm a nipper, I'm a ripper, I'm a navvy on the line, I get four and twenty bob a week Besides me overtime. All the ladies love the navvies And the navvies love the fun, There'll be plenty little babies When the railway's done. Some like the girls Who are slender in the waist, Others like the girls Who are pretty in the face. But give me the girl Who'll take it in her fist And shove it right home Into the cuckoo's nest. A schottische tune, popular at country dances. These words from Jim Lyons of Cook's Gap. With sheet music, p. 216-217, "Folk Songs of Australia, 1968, John Meredith and Hugh Anderson, pub. by Ure Smith, Sidney, Aus. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Navvy on the line. From: masato sakurai Date: 08 Jun 03 - 01:57 AM There's another one also titled "Navvy on the Line" ("I am a navvy bold, that's trampled the country round, sir") in Roy Palmer's Touch on the Times (Penguin, 1974, pp. 40-41). ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Navvy on the line. From: Susan of DT Date: 08 Jun 03 - 06:13 AM See also Navvy Boots in the DT |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Navvy on the line. From: GUEST,Jim I Date: 08 Jun 03 - 02:08 PM Thanks for your replies. The one I wanted is the one from Q although I'd better not use the second verse : ) Anyway I've got all the words of "The Cuckoo's Nest" from which that verse comes. Jim |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Navvy on the line. From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Jul 12 - 04:54 AM Bob Bolton sent me a MIDI: Click to play (joeweb) |
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