The Pogues - Navigator Lyrics

Lyrics Navigator - The Pogues



The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,
They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts
They never drank water but whiskey by pints
And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights.
Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there′s work to be done.
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.
They died in their hundreds with no sign to mark where
Save the brass in the pocket of the entrepreneur.
By landslide and rockblast they got buried so deep
That in death if not life they'll have peace while they sleep.
Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there′s work to be done.
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.
Their mark on this land is still seen and still laid
The way for a commerce where vast fortunes were made
The supply of an Empire where the sun never set
Which is now deep in darkness, but the railway's there yet.
Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there's work to be done.
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.



Writer(s): Philip Gaston


The Pogues - Original Album Series: The Pogues
Album Original Album Series: The Pogues
date of release
04-11-2011

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5 Dingle Regatta
6 Wild Cats Of Kilkenny
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8 Transmetropolitan
9 The Auld Triangle
10 Waxie's Dargle
11 Boys from the County Hell
12 Sea Shanty
13 Dark Streets of London
14 Streams of Whiskey
15 Poor Paddy
16 Greenland Whale Fisheries
17 Down In the Ground Where the Deadmen Go
18 Kitty
19 The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
20 The Old Main Drag
21 I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
22 A Pair Of Brown Eyes
23 Sally MacLennane
24 Dirty Old Town
25 Jesse James
26 Navigator
27 Billy's Bones
28 The Gentleman Soldier
29 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
30 If I Should Fall from Grace With God
31 Turkish Song of the Damned
32 Bottle of Smoke
33 Fairytale of New York
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35 Thousands Are Sailing
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41 Sit Down By the Fire
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