The Driller's Song

early one morning around 7 o'clock there were 16 terriers drilling on the rock the boss came and he said be still and bare down harder on the cast iron drill and drill ye terriers, drill. drill ye terriers drill! cos you work all day for sugar in yer tay, down behind the railway the new foreman was John McAnn god he was a mighty hard man one day a premature blast went off and up in the air went mighty Dan Goff when the next months payday came around Dan Goff a dollar short he found when he asked what for, this was his reply you was docked for the time you was in the sky