Building Up and Tearing England Down The Mary Wallopers

[Speech]
Who is jumping on the wagons?
Who is doing the work in this country?
They're all Irishmen every one of them
They're Irish contractors and they're Irish labor

[Verse 1]
I have won a hero's name with McAlpine and Costain
With Fitzpatrick, Murphy, Ashe and Wimpey's gang
I've been often on the road, on my way to draw the dole
When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing
And I used to think that God made the mixer pick and hod
So that Paddy might know hell above the ground
I've had gangers big and tough tell me tear it all out rough
When you're building up and tеaring England down

[Verse 2]
I remember Carriеr Jack he wore a hod upon his back
And he swore he'd one day set the world on fire
His face we've never seen since his shovel it cut clean
Through the middle of a big high tension wire
And I saw auld Balls McCaul, from the big flyover fall
Into a concrete mixer spinning round
Though it was not his intent, he got a fine head of cement
When he was building up and tearing England down