The Dubliners - Navvy Boots

Navvy Boots

Oh I am an old navvy and I work on the line
And the last place I worked was New Castle on Thyne
Well I'll tell me misfortune it happened in fun
Oh it happened one night I'd me navvy boots on

One night after supper I shaved of me beard
Ah to meet me fair Ellen I was well prepared
Oh to meet me fair Ellen I then hurried down
And I met her that night with my navvy boots on

I knocked on her window my knock it was low
Oh I knocked on her window my knock she did know
She jumped out of bed saying: 'Is that you John'
'A well be Yaysus it's me with me navvy boots on'

She came to the door and invited me in
Saying: 'Draw to the fire love and warm your skin'
Well the bedroom was open and the blankets rolled down
So I jumped into bed with me navvy boots on

And all of that night now we sported and played
Never thinking of time as it soon past away
Then she jumped out of bed crying: 'What have I done
Oh the baby will be born with his navvy boots on'

I chastised my loved one for talking so wild
Ah you foolish young girl you'll never have a child
Oh for all that I have done now it was only in fun
Oh but I ran like hell with me navvy boots on

And very soon after I was summon to court
To pay for me sins just like any man ought
I pay ten bob a week now for all of my fun
Oh but I had that night with my navvy boots on