Iron Mule
Lyrics
Send away your prayers hammer down the nails
Do the same tomorrow a penny for your pain
Another mile of rails another unblessed day
Your back is bent, fingers hurt
Mouth is full of dirt
Over mountain and lakes so blue
We will take the iron mule
The railway must come through
Inch by inch, like a snail so slow
But soon the iron mule will glow
From the southern shores
To the harbours of the north
21 and old winter wind is cold
Lungs they bleed for the iron mule
To make way for the new
Fever makes you weak
You cry yourself to sleep
Arms they keep on pounding on
Sledge it weighs a ton
Over mountain and lakes so blue
We will take the iron mule
In a year and a day
The railway must come through
Inch by inch, like a snail so slow
But soon the iron mule will glow
From the southern shores
To the harbours of the north
21 and old winter wind is cold
Lungs they bleed for the iron mule
To make way for the new
Fever makes you weak
You cry yourself to sleep
Arms they keep on pounding on
Sledge it weighs a ton
Over mountain and lakes so blue
We will take the iron mule
In a year and a day
The railway must come through
Inch by inch, like a snail so slow
But soon the iron mule will go
In sun and rain from now and ever on
Writer(s): Leif Edling
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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