12-string Guitar: Paddy Works On The Railway

According to Wikipedia:-
"Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" is a popular Irish folk and America folk song. It was often sung as a sea chanty. The song portrays an Irish worker working on a railroad.
There are numerous titles of the song including, "Pat Works on the Railway" and "Paddy on the Railway". Similarly, "Paddy Works on the Erie" is another version of the song but with an American connotation.
In The American Songbag, the writer Carl Sandburg claims that the song has been published in sheet music since the early 1850s. However, this evidence has not been found. The earliest confirmed date of publication is from 1864 from a manuscript magazine. Ernest Bourne recorded the first version, released in 1941, by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1938.
I first came across this song in a different arrangement on the BBC Broadcast for Schools programme Singing Together, but quite like this arrangement.

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[TheRobertoduran100]

its pat works on the railway 2 stars

[threelegsoman]

You obviously did not read the information accompanying the video.

[threelegsoman]

Each to his own son, each to his own.

[CelticthunderRules]

hey man that was great i like ur guitar work and great voice

[TheRobertoduran100]

oh ok well i like how my choir club sings it its better

[banjodano]

Excellent rendition, also luke kelly has a nice rendition

[00JTM]

I was wondering when you were going to sing this song, well done Five stars