Drill ye Tarriers, Drill

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X: 1
T:Drill ye Tarriers, Drill
S:Digital Tradition, drilltar
B:From Dyer-Bennet Folk Song Book
D:Recorded here by Richard Dyer-Bennet, but remembered from  "Sing Along with Mitch"
Z:dt:drilltar
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=80
W:Every morning about seven o'clock
W:There were twenty tarriers drilling at the rock
W:The boss comes along and he says, "Keep still
W:And bear down heavy on the cast iron drill"
W:
W:  Chorus:
W:  And drill, ye tarriers, drill
W:  Drill, ye tarriers, drill
W:  For it's work all day for the sugar in you tay
W:  Down beyond the railway
W:  And drill, ye tarriers, drill
W:  And blast, and fire
W:
W:The boss was a fine man down to the ground
W:And he married a lady six feet 'round
W:She baked good bread and she baked it well
W:But she baked it harder than the hobs of Hell
W:
W:The foreman's name was John McCann
W:By God, he was a blamed mean man
W:Last week a premature blast went off
W:And a mile in the air went big Jim Goff
W:
W:And when next payday came around
W:Jim Goff a dollar short was found
W:When he asked, "What for" came this reply
W:"You were docked for the time you were up in the sky"
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