Black Mud
The Story Is Everything
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Fleeing from the famine Ship after ship they came To New Orleans on promise A man might make a name Prideful, free, and hungry Wretched, lean, and poor They clambered down the gangway Ready to endure For Irishmen can stand their ground And stand their ground they shall In water to their waists they're digging The New Basin Canal Black mud for the Black Irish And gray the water's wave Yellow fever in the sun And black mud for the grave Houses in the channel Long and straight in rows Chimney stacks and barren rooms And babes in ragged clothes Washerwoman wives Stood on the stoops alone Waiting for the husbands Who never made it home But Irishmen can stand their ground And stand their ground they shall In water to their waists they're digging The New Basin Canal Black mud for the Black Irish And gray the water's wave Yellow fever in the sun And black mud for the grave Lower than the Germans Not as valuable as slaves Worked for almost nothing Not even worth the time to save Buried if they fell Not long an empty space Always another desperate Irishman to take their place For Irishmen can stand their ground And stand their ground they shall In water to their waists they're digging The New Basin Canal Black mud for the Black Irish And gray the water's wave Yellow fever in the sun And black mud for the grave One-hundred-fifty years have come And gone since those dark days Cars whiz over mindlessly The Pontchartrain Expressway But down below the concrete pylons Underneath the fill The ghosts of Irish immigrants Are standing, digging still For Irishmen can stand their ground And stand their ground they shall In water to their waists they're digging The New Basin Canal Black mud for the Black Irish And gray the water's wave Yellow fever in the sun And black mud for the grave For the grave
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