Navvy Boots

Oh, I am an old navvy and I work on the line

And the last place I worked was Newcastle-on-Tyne

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 off me beard

For to meet me fair Ellen I was well prepared

For to meet me fair Ellen I then hurried down

And I met her that night with me navvy boots on

I knocked on her window, my knock it was low

I knocked on her window, my knock she did know

She jumped out of bed saying: Is that you John?

Ah, bejaybers 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 passed away

Then she jumped out of bed crying: What have I done?

Ah, the baby will be born with his navvy boots on

I chastised me loved one for talking so wild

Ah, you foolish young girl, you'll never have a child

Ah, for all that I've done now twas only in fun

Ah, but I ran like hell with me navvy boots on

And very soon after I was summoned to court

To pay for me sins just like any man ought

I pay ten bob a week now for all of my fun

Ah, that I had that night with me navvy boots on