I have drunk me share and over when I was flush with tin,
For the drouth without was nothin' to the drouth that burned within!
And where'er I've filled me billy and where'er I've drained me can,
I've done it like a navvy, a bold navvy man.
A bold navvy man,
An old navvy man,
And I've done me graft and stuck it like a bold navvy man.
"I've met a lot of women and I liked them all a spell—
They drive some men to drinkin' and also some to hell,
But I have never met her yet, the woman cute who can