Patron Saint O' Thieves - The Rumjacks

Auld Nick patron saint o thieves, murderers and sailors

Strike these shackles from me uh-huh

Slide the bolt from out the door and tear down all the wire

My baby’s growin' cold and I’m on fire

The wind that whistles off the hills and carries her perfume

Carries too a lonely carol badly out of tune

For just tonight beyond these walls I’d lay a mountain low

And sing to her like only I know how

They don’t hang no fairy lights these rusty iron bars

So I’ll burn a paper lamp for her to see

Though she’s left like a widow of a war that never was

There’s a light still burns in me

Auld Nick patron saint o' merchants, pawnmen and the judges

Who barter with the lives o men the battlers and the bludgers

Go haunt the dogs awhile they sleep and thrash em round to sense

There’s too many good boys this side of the fence

They don’t hang no fairy lights these rusty iron bars

So I’ll burn a paper lamp for her to see

Though she’s left like a widow of a war that never was

There’s a light still burns in me

There’s boys in here for liftin' gear from non-be-wary strangers

Newly minted ner-do-wells and them born with the dangers

For livin' less than fruitful lives, toppin' less than faithful wives

A broken line o' fools that span the ages

They don’t hang no fairy lights these rusty iron bars

So I’ll burn a paper lamp for her to see

Though she’s left like a widow of a war that never was

There’s a light still burns in me

Auld Nick patron saint o' fools from both sides of the law

For his sake wipe the dirty grin off that fat bastards jaw

For we’re lovers of tradition and we might yet find a way

To hold them bloody keys come Boxing Day

They don’t hang no fairy lights these rusty iron bars

So I’ll burn a paper lamp for her to see

Though she’s left like a widow of a war that never was

There’s a light still burns in me

They don’t hang no fairy lights these rusty iron bars

So I’ll burn a paper lamp for her to see

Though she’s left like a widow of a war that never was

There’s a light still burns in me

Burn it, boys!