Hey Paddy - Christy Moore

From Rotherhithe in London to Bethnal by the Green

Paddy worked the buildings with the pick and shovel

Squad

Friday nights he’d always end up drinking with the lads

The craic was mighty with the navvies from the sod

There’s a hooley on for Jimmy he’s the gofor on the

Site

They lifted him for sleeping rough they gave him forty

Days and nights

He’s out again and crouching beside 'got ye’s' fire for

Heat

Drinking billy after billy can of charcoal tea

Hey!

Paddy, Hey!

Paddy where have you been Paddy

Hey!

Paddy where have you been (hi ho)

Hey!

Paddy guess what we’re taking you in Paddy

Hey!

Paddy where have you been (hi ho)

Fol de doll de dairy do

Jimmy sang the rebel songs Paddy sang them too

Till the Rasta man from Trinidad whispered them the

News

Listen to me my good friend this warning take from me

The cops are lifting Paddy bastards from across the

Irish Sea

Sitting in a caf down the Kings cross road

Drinking cappuccinos on a bellyful of beer

His head was only lifting he had twenty minutes left

For another cup of coffee and another cigarette

Lousy Monday morning on the tube Paddy read the rag

They were looking for a photo fit he was the one they

Lagged

The coppers lifted him and took his photo for the files

And they kicked him in the bollix just to make him

Smile