Iron Mule - Avatarium

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

Your mouth is full of dirt

Over mountain and lakes so blue

We’ll 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

Twentyone 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’ll 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

Twentyone 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’ll 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