Packy - The Elders

Now Packy Kildare was a kid without a care

His pal was Bucky McGrath

At the age of ten they talked like men

Feared by the rest of their class

Sister Josephine ran a clean machine

She was nobody’s fool

She’d send them down below to shovel in the coal

That heated all Saint Brendan’s school

They spilled off a spool just too cool for school

They called it a waste of time

So every other day was wasted away

By the river in their life of crime

Packy I confess you have beaten the best

With a story to tell all your own

Packy go home they’re searching for your bones

And your ma’s waiting up all alone

Yeah your ma’s waiting up all alone

Now the clever young man one day had a plan

To escape the fate he had comin'

Loading every grain of coal that furnace could hold

To keep that boiler hummin'

As the temperature soared to one thousand or more

And the pressure continued to rise

Our boys were miles away burning up another day

When the blast split the mid day sky

Packy I confess you have beaten the best

With a story to tell all your own

Packy go home they’re searching for your bones

And your ma’s waiting up all alone

Yeah your ma’s waiting up all alone

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