ID: 1471
Date: 1930s
Title: I'm a navvy
Gender: Female 
Classification: Topical rhyme 
Rhyme: 

I'm a navvy,
I'm a navvy,
Working on the line,
Four and twenty bob a week,
And all the overtime.
Peas, puddin' and faggots,
Every dinner time. 
That's what a navvy gets
For working on the line!

(NZ ex UK - Cockney, 1930s)

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Background Info: Navvy = railway worker.
Variation from www.warrenfahey.com: (Accessed 15 January, 2007)

I'm a navvy,
I'm a navvy, I'm a navvy on the line,
Four and twenty bob a week,
And all the overtime.
Roast beef, boiled beef,
Puddings made of eggs,
Up jumps a navvy with a pair of sausage legs.

(Australia, 1960s)

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Turner,1978:116:

I'm a navvy, you're a navvy,
Working on the line,
Four and twenty bob a week,
Besides our overtime.
Roast beef, boiled beef,
Pudden' made of eggs,
Up came a copper,
With a pair of sausage legs.

(Queensland, Aust, 1925 - railway settlers' camp)

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Opie, 1967:261:

I'm a navvy by trade,
I can wield a pick and spade,
I can shove a little barrow up a brew;
I get thirty bob a week,
And my wife and kids to keep
And that's what a navvy has to do.

(Sung by group of Manchester boys, called Molly dancers)

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Location: NZ (ex UK) 
Group size: 2 
Incidence: 1