Steamboat Row lyrics

My daddy was a miner, said there was nothing finer
Than an Irish man who worked an honest day
From Steamboat Row, in rain or shine, hed make his way down to the mine
Along the dusty road hed travel
Fifteen miles to get there, fifteen miles to go
Fifteen miles back home again, home to Steamboat Row.

He used to tell about the time he got hurt down in the mine
He said hed never go back down again
But in his heart he knew he would, he did the only thing he could
Kept on walkin down that road
Fifteen miles to get there, fifteen miles to go
Fifteen miles back home again, home to Steamboat Row.

But when he took to drinkin we knew that he was thinkin
That his days were quickly coming to an end
Hed only speak of Steamboat Row, he said someday we ought to go
And walk along that dusty road
Fifteen miles to get there, fifteen miles to go
Fifteen miles back home again, home to Steamboat Row.

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Part of These Albums

• Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: 1970-1982
• » see all by ‘Gerry Rafferty’

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STEALERS WHEEL Steamboat Row: A slicker almost countryish version of the song Gerry originally did with the Humblebums...the mining images relate to the Blantyre pit disaster where some of my ancestors died in 1877 Jim (video from YouTube)

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