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 Lyrics from eLyrics.net