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Tunie: Navigator

A list of 46 words by chained_bear.

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by the Pogues, on the LP "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash." Lyrics copyright 1985 P. Gaston (according to the Pogues website).

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 shantytowns rang with their songs and their fights.

(chorus)
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.

(chorus)

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.

(chorus)

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  • reesetee I think it's *c_b* who's adding Tunies left and right! Clearly, this is one lyrical person. :-) Mar 5, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang yeah yeah, great list. I just added "I am the Walrus." It added it twice and now I can't access either! Meanwhile, peeps be adding Tunies left and right! Waaaah. Mar 5, 2007