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Duffy's Cut
Christy Moore

In the summer of 1832


The sailing ship John Stamp


Tied up into the port of Pennsylvania


Up the ladder from the cargo deck


Poor men and women crept


Into the open skies above





Dia is Muire Dhuit agus Failte Romhat


Duffy’s my name, I cut through stone


Work for me, I’m one of your own


In dollars I will pay you





57 men signed up,


Duffy promised to fill their cup


If they cut the Malvern Valley up


Mile 59 had to be on time for the railway line





From Ballyshannon and The Glenties


They sailed right into hell



They suffered like the weeping Christ


Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood


Into his wishing well


Were they taken by the sickness?


Were they hunted down like scum?


Was there poison in the water?


Was it cholera or murder?


The smoke that hid the bullets


From the barrel of the boss’s gun





The Blacksmith and the Holy Sisters


Good people through and through


Whispered prayers into the victims ears


It’s all that they could do


How come the bosses had silence on their lips


As 57 Irish Navvies were buried in a pit


No stone to mark their resting place


No one to mourn their passing


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