The Dubliners - McAlpines Fusiliers (lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING.Love this. Cover by The Young Dubliners is also on my channel. This was written on the early 60s by Dominic Behan for The Dubliners. It's about Sir Robert McAlpine who was a major Irish employer during the mass work migration from Ireland to England during and after the second world war.
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For all the men who left their homes and poverty behind, and my Dad was one, I'll raise a toast to "the men who helped build Britain"
greg marrison ur a fool
cody igoe you’re the fool. They left there family and went to London and built it. They were great men. My father was one. Hard decent honest hard working men I’m proud to say are my own
cody igoe yeah you are a fool
And we blew it to pieces too
"oh as down the glen came mcalpines men!" ... Goosebumps whenever that kicks in!
I was at The Crown in Cricklewood on the opening night when it went upmarket. It didn't have any reference to its history - the Irish and probably more before. At the end of the night I stood on the table and sang this song and got barred for life. When I got home I woke my dad up and said you know you gave me a list of pubs you'd never want to hear about me drinking in - well I ignored it and I've just been barred from The Crown. He laughed out loud and told me he was proud of me.
Good for you. I remember singing this in chorus on Saturday nights in the White Horse in Willesden. 35 years ago now, or more (the band was called the Connolly Folk). You could call it a rough pub maybe , but the beer was good and so was the company. And back then you'd be more likely to be barred for not singing :-)
The two biggest musical influences in my life have been the Dubliners and The Clash. And they have both used The Crown in their songs. Someday I will get to London and have a pint in that pub.
Catherine Kelliher awesome
God Bless Ya
I’m a glasgow brickie, who lived n worked in London, late 70 s and eighties, used to cash our cheques in the crown, for 3 per cent
Best days of my life 👍🏻👍🏻 music n banter amazing
brings back a lot of memories of working in an irish pub in London during the 90s and that song among others blaring on the juke box. the area that i lived a new council estate was built and there were a lot of irish guys working on it. the lads got paid on a friday cashed their check in the pub, repaid the landlord any money borrowed earlier in the week and hit the booze and visited the bookies and the kebab house (which were conveniently near enough next door) in between drinks , the session lasted from fri night all through saturday till closing sunday night , (more than once i heard one of them on saying they had spent 2-300 in just one session) come monday or tuesday the whole borrow, repay on friday, drink the rest would begin again.
i was one of then
+Kieron yes your right Dunn lol
standup andbcounted
My old man came over in ‘64, relatively late with regards to this song but that was the culture in many circles up to the late 90’sevwn; work like dogs, drink like fish, gamble like degenerates (though this last part was far more niche). My old man got his wages on the Thursday night but was skint and starving by Tuesday evening by the latest and this was commonplace in those days. Regrets fuck all of it too, best days of his life 😉
My granda died yesterday, my name sake and one of the original fusiliers. Aireoidh mé uaim thú.
I am sorry for your lost. --- a cousin from across the pond.
Only Ronnie Drew can sing this. I've heard a lot of other versions by the High Kings and the like but they pale in comparison. Drew's gravelling hard-living voice is perfectly suited to this song. I don't think any modern singer can do it justice. RIP Ronnie!
The luke kelly version is pretty good but ronnie drew can't be beat
Also true of 'Pub with no beer.' No Aussie could match him.
Pecker Dunne has the best version
Possibly the only Irish song to mention my nation. Well, the only one I know. Greetings from Czechia!
Hi... from czechia..
The EU UN all Zionist media NGOs and borderless charities must be disbanded for Europe to keep it's European cultural heritage identity and have a peaceful future for our children.
I better like the "Czech republic" than the artificial name "Czechia", but who cares... greetings from Prague :-)
The Czech people were very brave people in the war. The commandos who killed heydrich and the resistance fighters are well known and the village of ledice and others. Love from australia
Neil Aspin someone has Ben shapirus prick up their bum
worked with the Irish boys on the Victoria line, what a bunch of hard working hard drinking boys they were, great nights in the pub with them.
nice to be nice
is that why the Vicky line screams? Revenge or something?
I worked on the tracks for BR and seeing the Irish contact workers work ten times as hard as BR men and not stop till the work was finished and you couldn’t fault them.
this song brings back memories I served a 5yrs apprenticeship with mcalpines on the shell building on the south bank in London from 1955.the irish lads I worked with were hard working beer swilling men but I remember their kindness and friendship I am English to end thank god for the irish scots and welsh or this country would have no music at all I can only say sorry for the wrongdoings of my forefathers may the lord thro.his holy mother bless us all I don't evoke the of our lord lightly as I am a catholic
good on ya lad lovely comment no need to say sorry for anything raising a whiskey to ur health tonight while myself now a few lads head out
thanks mate bottom up lads
Fair play.
GOD bless YOU sir
I'm English too. Fitted power station boilers, mills and exhausters for International Combustion & Doosan-Babcock... Now living the dream in Co. Longford.
As an Alfred MacAlpine man, we were based 10miles from Liverpool so got the choice straight off the boats! I later worked with John Laing and Wimpey ( We Import More Paddies Every Year!) so know these guys! Never lived in Cricklewood, but knew it well, although in my latter years it wasn't Paddy we picked up on a Monday morning but Slavs and assorted Eastern Europeans! Ah for the good old hard days!
I'm thinking you originate from my home town.
Lang..ya lying Bellend
Lying cum bucket
The last verse I think the correct lyrics are "unshuttering jambs" not "on shuddering jams". The skilled chippies would assemble the shuttering for the concrete to be poured and the labourers would dismantle the structures after the concrete hardened - really hard heavy work! The jambs are upright supports (same as we use in door jambs)
very underrated song...ronnie sings it better than anyone
Lived in the Isle of Grain as a child and adult,met many a Irishman down there,great crack in the local pub and working men's club,great days long gone.
Found myself going down a rabbit hole of history and god I am glad I did! These guys could teach all the snowflakes how to toughen up.
I met many Irish navvies, hard working hard drinking hard playing salts of the earth
The ultimate song for the working man.
My grandpa ran away from home in Laois and went to Dublin and then on to London. Worked digging holes. He used to tell me they would pull you out by your ear if you were too slow. Eventually he went to Canada and then boston and here I am
Sounds like your gramps couldn't be pegged down in one place.
I smell bullshit
@@cormaccrossen7069 Did ya wipe?
I worked for Mcalpines for 18 years. That song brings back fond memories.
From the song lyrics, I would've assumed those memories would be anything but fond.
Was he as bad as they recon?
We will never see the likes of mcalpines fusiliers again and some day the English will miss the Irish
The day is coming quick an soon! Irish, Welsh, Scots have all been despised and abused by England. Now they are amazed that SNP won and Scots prefer EU membership to the tender mercies of the British power elite.
The demographics in NI would gave triggered a unification resolution under GFA in another 20 years, but under Brexit that borderland will be overrun with smuggling in both directions. Aside from that, the Brexit Border will destroy small businesses on BOTH sides. Tories will have used and abandoned ALL the people of NI once again.
The question is whether re-unification of Ireland happens before the economy of NI crashes.
Scotland free, Ireland united, Brexit will release Celts at last! I see a Celtic cultural Renaissance coming, united within the E.U.!
@@christal2641 absolute shite but good luck with your baseless prophesies
Twas in the year of '39
When the sky was full of lead
When Hitler was heading for Poland
And Paddy for Holyhead
Come all you pincher laddies
And you long-distance men
Don't ever work for McAlpine
For Wimpey, or John Laing
For you'll stand behind a mixer
Til your skin is turned to tan
And they'll say, Good on you, Paddy
With your boat-fare in your hand
The craic was good in Cricklewood
And they wouldn't leave the Crown
With glasses flying and Biddy's crying
Sure Paddy was going to town
Oh mother dear, I'm over here
I never will come back
What keeps me here is the reek o' beer
The ladies and the craic
Mcalpine hired mostly Irish workers.Class song by Dominic Behan.Love The Dubs.
Murphys, the cable laying firm that installed the electric cables across the UK were more selective in their hiring of Irishmen, in fact, you had to be from either Kerry or the West before they'd even consider you to be hired.
My dad worked for Alfred McAlpine........Is it Robert McAlpine now?
I used to work for Shannon groundworkers. My interest and love of Irish music and Irish history began then. By God we ha some craic! A few years later I was in Dublin at Raglan road, dying for a piss, asks to use a toilet on a building site. And the lyrics to this song were written on the bog wall😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Listen and learn,of a time when Britiain wanted workers,workers wanted work,all the pubs were full,and stuff was getting done.you will never see the like again.God bless every man who sweats for his living,then and now.
jcbairmaster73 in reality not the romantic version you see it was times of exploitation and men bitterly unhappy with back breaking work who turned to alcoholism to hide the misery. I sweat for my living and it’s shit
An article from IRELAND'S OWN strongly suggests that one Martin Henry (a distant relative of mine) wrote this song. Martin, it is argued, also wrote the poem titled, "Men of 39," which introduces "McAlpine's Fusiliers." The article gives credit to Dominic Behan, however, for tidying things up and composing a very good, rousing song. Martin Henry and Dominic Behan are no longer here to sort things out.
john sheehan makes the fiddle sing along to the vocals a true great.
Magic,
thanks Paddy,
for clearing our bombed towns,
and building,
them new airfields,
needed.
x
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this is one of my fav songs of all time darling
Some of the cover versions of this song are half decent like, but it's only The Dubliners that can make me cry like a new born.
My grandads song god bless
It's shuttering Jams not shuddering jams
Meaning shuttering carpentry which they put in before the pour the concrete
After dampcoarsing.
TY 4 the footnote about Sir R McAlpine it helped me understand more about what the tune was telling .me
for anyone wondering what the hell he means when he says "the craic was good in cricklewood", "craic" basically means gossip/basically just talking to someone, and cricklewood is an area in london apparently.
The Craic means having a good time drinking, laughing, singing, etc
Cricklewood is in North London and had many big Irish pubs and massive Irish community. Lots of it all gone now.
my second names mcalpine i love this !!!
Great song,😛my Father in laws favourite song.
Ahhh the days of my youth and a fair colleen Helen McAlpine of Port Hope.
love it, love it. love it.
Love it.
My Dad loves this song
fantastic
Great song but the lyric should be 'shuttering jams' (when pouring concrete into wooden shuttering) not shuddering.
And jambs I think rather than jams
This is the first version I ever heard of this song. I had a random CD from half price books. Anyone know when/where this was recorded?
Legend
Ronnie and the boys sorely missed
good song
The last time I saw or used a "hod" was 1957.
Shit i used one in 2007
Yeah me too, about 2005 and I’m glad to see the back of that fucker I can tell you...
Nice work
Whoever typed out the lyrics on this didn't listen properly and is unfamiliar with the building trade. A Californian Tribute Band (The Young Dubliners) who sing a Celtic Rock version also made the same error a few years ago in their lyrics (and the printed version on the sleeve in their CD). Its 'shuttering jams' (3:11)... not 'shuddering jams'. This is rather ironic in a way as shuttering carpenters were often the highest paid jobs on a construction site because they had to work very fast and if they did ever down-tools the impact on the employer would be immediate and costly. Irish navvies were usually excluded from this work by discrimination and by the fact that very few of them were time-served chippies (although in truth the job required speed rather than extensive carpentry skills). 'Shuttering jams' are the rapidly constructed wooden forms/moulds used to retain concrete after it is poured and until it sets, and it has to be built very quickly and with the planking jammed together so tightly and fixed in place so that the concrete does not squeeze through the gaps. You can often see the lines from the planking, and sometimes the grain of the wood, imprinted into concrete on large constructions like flyovers, bridges, and dams (as mentioned in the song) where this technique has been used.
The song itself is wonderful and is justifiably regarded as the anthem of the construction trade (just as Maggie May is the anthem of the Merchant Navy).
ma mates./ i love then
Shuttering, not "shuddering", and Flynn not "Finn". But otherwise OK :)
Don't we worry about it kid it's not your thing
nice song that is called McAlpine's fusiliers
HELLOW ANN FEERICK I WAS ONE OF THOES MEN.THE OLD SAYING NEVER MIND THE SHILINGS AS LONG AS THE CRACK IS GOOD HAPPY DAYS.
Good old song 👌
We always went to The Crown in 60's forca row with the paddys
My old man drank in the Crown in the 60s. He remembers a hatchet being produced during a card game and buried in the table. The Paddy's weren't afraid of anyone. My dad had served with the Irish Army and gave 6 months in the Congo with the UN so he definitely wasn't afraid to tackle anyone and he would still argue his corner today at 82 here in Tipperary. I asked him one day was he called Paddy in England, he said they were all Paddy 😅🤣. His name is actually Andy.
Greetings from Italy.
My Dad used to drink in there 60's Wexford man, Jimmy Lambert I went in there 80's what was the name of the Dance hall next to it. Help Please
Tony Lambert the Galty...Galtymore
Jesus yeah, the Galtymore, gone about 20 years, in fairness an awful shite of a place but a landmark all the same...
Check out a cover by "The Scratch"
One of the best covers I've ever heard. Definitely for fans of dropkick Murphys
this transcription is brilliant, but I hear "un-shuttlleling jams up in the hydro dams", instead of "One shuddering jams up in the hydro dams". Am I right? Don't really know what un-shuttleling a jam would involve, though
oh was*
as a young Dane i lived in London working the Irish pubs as a barman. The Irish old fellows tought me how to be a man and stand up to tyrants, but i could not learn how to drink like them,,they basically lived of fish/chips and Guiness. They are the strongest and most masculine men i have ever met, and i wish that the current snowflake-culture would go to the irish pub and learn something about life:):)
Can anyone here explain the meaning behind the song and the intro to the song too? Thanks
Its about the hard working Irish who travelled over on the ferry then helped build up London especially after the blitz.... Mcalpine was a building company who would hire only the hardest working of men....these guys loved a pint or two also 😂
@@boob19791 thank you
The craic means having fun drinking, singing, laughing, dancing anything associated with a few pints
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oved this from the first day I heard it BTW I am 69
i can speak irish
This song would be forbidden today.
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i drove a truck building the motor ways they were hard workers drank a lot had fights but were 100 percent men they new i lied about my age was only 15 said i was 21 no one was bother they always look out for me i look after there money made shore it was posted home if a fight in the pub put in the corner to hold on valuables hard men but had my repect
awdc you must think the men of today are soft as pudding? You’d probably be right, they did the hard work so we didn’t have to I guess
The Irish always fought amongst themselves though. Many an Irishman’s pay was stolen but only by another Irishman