The Pogues - Navigator Live

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.

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• 1985
• shane
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• gaston

[Garriscalvento]

Thank you for sharing, hell this takes me back to the eighties, just a lunatic teen, still have rhum sodomy and the lash in vynil and i'm not ever going to buy the CD! Always loved this song, but they never played it in the concerts I saw. God bless 'em all and especially Shane.

[Murmu]

awesome

[maddmike68]

One of my favorite Pogues songs. Among many great songs. Damn, I just never get tired of listening to them.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Where'd you get these live renditions?

[hanshotfirst1138]

They died in their hundreds with no sign to mark where

Save the brass in the pocket of the entrepreneur.

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.

Gives me chills.

[polmaccaba]

LOL..kids, The Scots are Irish and the Irish are Scots, but the navigator lives in Australia where both countries men were sent. That is my take, you want to argue it, fire away.

[davyb08]

@pbrick6301 no offence meant my grammer is not the best .but the comma was meant to put us together as an example not to compare us .all the best davy

[pbrick6301]

@davyb08 with all due respect, we irish have contribute more actual work to the civilization of earth then the scots. probably twice as much.

[aldgunencarrothers]

@KevinV12000 and your tears...

[UKLooney]

probably the best concert i've ever been to. Glasgow Barrowlands 1984

[davyb08]

on the backs of the irish and scottish brain and brawn ,arose the british world domination

[SuperDsweeney]

@shanester71 Yeah, technically speaking you are correct. But I would always regard things like " Streams of whiskey " or " A pair of brown eyes " as " traditional " music, or in the traditional style using traditional instruments. " Dirty old town " was only written in the 1960's I believe, but I would regard it as a traditional ballad all the same.