Tunnel Tigers by Ewan MacColl

Thanks to Sean Flynn from the Hackham Irish session in Adelaide for suggesting this song to me. Great to be back there after 5-6 years.

This is a song by Ewan MacColl:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/ewan.maccoll/songs/thetunneltigers.html

The use of 'Jack it / Ram it' and the Shield suggests that this is about the construction of the Thames Tunnel in the mid 1800s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel

Some detail in the collection here:
https://life-on-the-edge.org/2021/06/11/tunnel-vision-the-genius-of-marc-brunel/

A memorial for the Tunnel Tigers here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49275881

MacColl probably didn't coin the 'Tunnel Tigers' term, as seen here in 1950:
https://archive.org/details/sim_electrical-world_1950-01-23_133_4/page/n15

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