The Bar Room

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I'm a celebrated working man, from work I never shirk
I can hew more coals than any man, from Glasgow down to York
And if you'd like to see me smile, then call around to me
When I've had several beers in the bar-room


In the bar-room, in the bar-room, that's where we congregate,
To drill the holes, and fill the coals and shovel back the slates,
And for a job of work, you know I'm never late,
That's provided that we do it in the bar-room

I can judge a shot of powder to the sixteenth of a grain,
I can fill my eighteen buckets so the water falls like rain
And if you'd like to see me in a horizontal vein,
It's at closing time tonight around the bar-room


CHO


At singing I'm a dandy, boys I'm sure you will agree
And playing at the music-box with all the others free,
The landlord sweeps around us, but he doesn't bother me
For provided that we're drinking in the bar-room


CHO