Crooked Jack

from End of Winter by Keltas

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Composition: Trad. arrangement: John Doyle
Cette chanson raconte l’histoire d’un grand homme « Fort » qui fut engagé
pour construction d’un barrage en Irlande du nord. Et il a finit par se casser le dos, d’où son surnom « Crooked jack »

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Come Irishmen both young and stern
With adventure in your soul
There are better ways to spend your days
Than in working down a hole
Refrain:
I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2
But they broke me across the back
By a name I'm known and it's not my own
For they call me Crooked Jack
The ganger's blue-eyed pet was I
Big Jack could do no wrong
And the reason simply was because
I could work hard hours and long
Refrain:
I've seen men old before their time
Their faces drawn and gray
I never thought so soon would mine
Be lined the self same way
Refrain:
I've cursed the day that I went away
To work on the hydro dams
For sweat and tears or hopes and fears
Bound up in shuttering jams
Refrain:
They say that honest toil is good
For the spirit and the soul
But believe me boys it's for sweat and blood
That they want you down a hole

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from End of Winter, released January 1, 2016

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Keltas France

Sarah Tardien,
Antoine Petit,
Gabriel Maugey,
Clément Denis
Aurélien Prugnaud
Pierre- Jean Muet

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Amandine Goudouneix
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