The Mary Wallopers ~ Building up and Tearing England Down.
Written by Dominic Behan (22nd October 1928 - 3rd August 1989)
There are so many back stories here you'll have to chase them up or 'down'. The Mary Wallopers are a folk group from Dundalk in County Louth and would be in a line that includes the best there is. There are many versions of this ballad out there but most people of my generation would probably remember it from 'The Dubliners' or Dominic's own version of the song. It is some fine piece of writing and it will be remembered and around as a record of the conditions endured on the building sites of England and other places from the ending of world war two almost to the present. The New Victoria Lines paid well but you paid. Loaded by John Reilly and with thanks.
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