{"id":86,"date":"2025-04-15T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:29:42","slug":"009-crooked-jack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/?page_id=86","title":{"rendered":"009. Crooked jack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/td>C-Dur\/ Am-Moll <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Siegi<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Intro Fl\u00f6te beginnend A<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am<\/strong><\/td>C<\/strong><\/td><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Come Irish men both young and stern  with adventure in your soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td>Am<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are better ways to spend your days.  than working down a hole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am<\/strong><\/td>C<\/strong><\/td><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I curse the day that I went away, To work on the hydro dam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Blood, sweat and tears, our hopes and fears, Bound up in shuttering jams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chorus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

:C<\/strong><\/td><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td>Am<\/strong><\/td><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was tall and true, all of six foot two<\/em>, till they broke me across the back<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am<\/strong><\/td><\/td>C<\/strong><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td>Am<\/strong><\/td>G<\/strong><\/td>Am<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By a name I ‚m known, It’s not my o- wn<\/em>, hey call me Crooked Jack<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The blue eyed gangers pet was I Big Jack could do no wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason simply was because I could work hard hours and long<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chorus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fl\u00f6tenintro<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve seen men old before their time,    their faces dark and gray<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never thought that I myself.    would soon be the self same way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chorus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cursed the day I went away.     to work on those Hydro dams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For sweat and tears or hope and fear.    bound up a shuddering jams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chorus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fl\u00f6ten<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They say that honest toil is good for the body and the soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

but I tell you boys it’s blood and sweat.    that they want you down a hole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chorus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C-Dur\/ Am-Moll Siegi Intro Fl\u00f6te beginnend A Am C G Come Irish men both young and stern  with adventure in your soul Am G Am There are better ways to spend your days.  than working down a hole Am C G I curse the day that I went away, To work on the hydro dam Am G […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glife.org\/KissMeIamIrish\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}