The Dubliners - Navvy Boots lyrics

Oh, I am an old navvy and I work on the line And the last place I worked was Newcastle-on-Tyne Well, I'll tell me misfortune it happened in fun Oh, it happened one night I'd me navvy boots on One night after supper I shaved off me beard For to meet me fair Ellen I was well prepared For to meet me fair Ellen I then hurried down And I met her that night with me navvy boots on I knocked on her window, my knock it was low I knocked on her window, my knock she did know She jumped out of bed saying: Is that you John? Ah, bejaybers it's me with me navvy boots on She came to the door and invited me in Saying: draw to the fire, love, and warm me your skin Well the bedroom was open and the blankets rolled down So I jumped into bed with me navvy boots on And all of that night now we sported and played Never thinking of time as it soon pa**ed away Then she jumped out of bed crying: What have I done? Ah, the baby will be born with his navvy boots on I chastised me loved one for talking so wild Ah, you foolish young girl, you'll never have a child Ah, for all that I've done now twas only in fun Ah, but I ran like hell with me navvy boots on And very soon after I was summoned to court To pay for me sins just like any man ought I pay ten bob a week now for all of my fun Ah, that I had that night with me navvy boots on