Thanks to Sean Flynn from the Hackham Irish session in Adelaide for suggesting this song to me. Great to be back there after 5-6 years.
This is a song by Ewan MacColl:
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The use of 'Jack it / Ram it' and the Shield suggests that this is about the construction of the Thames Tunnel in the mid 1800s:
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Some detail in the collection here:
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A memorial for the Tunnel Tigers here:
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MacColl probably didn't coin the 'Tunnel Tigers' term, as seen here in 1950:
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