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the mickey dam - ciarán cooney lyrics

[verse 1]
i’m an honest irish labourer and i come from the county clare
and once i had a little farm with nothin’ much to spare
but i had to sell me donkey and me little billy goat
and with the money i had left, to glasgow took a boat
in the mornin’ when i landed there, before me hair was dry
i was started at the micky dam, in a place that they call milngavie
and the ganger that looked over us, they called him john the mouse
and the very first day i started there, at me he bade to grouse
well, i quickly did surprise him and i says “you little rat
i’ll tie a string around you’re neck, i’ll toss you to the cat”

[chorus]
for i’m as strong as any lion
i was reared on eggs and ham
i’m a terror to all fightin’ men
around the micky dam

well, this roused the mouse’s temper, and at me he made to jump
and he swore he’d paralyze me, with the handle of a pump
but, i quickly did surprise him and i grabbed him by the throat
and i shook that ugly monkey, ’til the tails fell off his coat

[chorus]
for i’m as strong as any lion
i was reared on eggs and ham
i’m a terror to all fightin’ men
around the micky dam
for i’m as strong as any lion
i was reared on eggs and ham
i’m a terror to all fightin’ men
around the micky dam
[verse 3]
well, them big hotels we’re stopping in, they call them navvies huts
and the bugs and the fleas that live in the beds they’re big as coconuts
and on sat*rday night, when i get rare, i’ll stand behind the door
and as they come out, one by one, i’ll bash them to the floor

- ciaran cooney lyrics

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