SONG: BUILDING UP AND TEARING ENGLAND DOWN ARTIST: THE DUBLINERS TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected] BUILDING UP AND TEARING ENGLAND DOWN THE DUBLINERS INTRO: A VERSE: A D E Oh, I won a hero's name with McAlpine and Costain A D E A With Fitz Patrick, Murphy Ash and the Wimpy's gang A D E I've been often on the road on me way to draw the dole A D E A When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing BREAK: F#m C# And I used to think that God made the mixer, pick and hod F#m C# F#m So a Paddy might no hell above the ground VERSE: LOW E STRING -2---4- A I've had ganger's big and tough D E Tell me tear that hole out rough CHORUS: A D E A When you're building up and tearing England down VERSE: A D E In a tunnel under ground a young Limerick man was found A D E A He was built into the new Victoria line A D E When the bonus gang had passed sticking from the concrete cast A D E A Was the face of little Charlie Joe Divine BREAK: F#m C# And the ganger man McGurk said big Paddy hates the work F#m C# F#m When the gas main blew and he flew off the ground VERSE: LOW E STRING -2---4- A Oh they swore he'd send down slack D E And I'll not be there until I'm back CHORUS: A D E A Keep on building up and tearing England down VERSE: A D E I was on the shuttering dam on the day that Jack McCann A D E A Got the better of his stammer in a week A He fell from the shuttering dam D E And that poor old stuttering man A D E A He was never ever more inclined to speak BREAK: F#m C# And I saw old Balls McColl with a big fly over haul F#m C# F#m Into a concrete mixer spinning round VERSE: LOW E STRING -2---4- A Though it wasn't his intent D E He got a fine head of cement CHORUS: A D E A When he was building up and tearing England down VERSE: A D E I remember carrier Jack with his hod upon his back A D E A How he swore one day he'd set the world on fire A Well his face they've never seen D E Since his shovel it cut clean A D E A To the middle of the big high tension wires BREAK: F#m C# Oh the more like Robin Hood well he wrung trough Cricklewood F#m C# F#m Or dance around the pubs in Camdon Town VERSE: LOW E STRING -2---4- A Oh but let no man proclaim D E Sure old Pad' could die in vain CHORUS: A D E A When he's building up and tearing England down INSTRUMENTAL: A D A E A D A E A F#m D A E A D A E A F#m D A E A D A E A F#m D A E A D A E A VERSE: A So come all you navvy's bold D E Do not think that English gold A D E A Is just waiting to be taken from each sod A D E By the likes of you and me will never get an O.B.E A D E A Or a knighthood for good service to the hod BRIDGE: F#m It's the concrete master race C# That would keep you in your place F#m C# F#m And a ganger man to kick you to the ground VERSE: LOW E STRING -2---4- A If you ever try to take D E Part of what the bosses make CHORUS: A D E A When you're building up and tearing England down
