Pop Goes the Hammer
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This a big country we live in
With mountains and flatlands, and coalmines and oceans
And I've just about covered it all
You know you meet all kinds of people when you're traveling around
Some good, some bad
And a lot of them wishing they could start all over again
And you also hear a lot of singing
One day, I came across a road gang working in the hot sun
And there was one fella, swinging a hammer, and singing this song
Pop goes the hammer
Split goes the rock
You don't know how
I wish I could stop
If I could only turn back the clock
I'd never touch a thing (never touch a thing)
(Yah!)
Anybody's got
Gets it twenty on the hot rock pile
Twenty is a sweat, oughta change my style
Twenty long years, and they start tomorrow
It'll teach you not to steal (teach you not to steal)
(Yah!)
When you can borrow
Pop goes the hammer
Split goes the rock
You don't know how
I wish I could stop
If I could only, turn back the clock
I'd never touch a thing anybody's got
From early morn, to the late sunset
One drink of water is all that I'd get
I'd come here young, reckless and wild
But I'll leave here old (leave here old)
(Yah!)
Broken and mild
My back's burnt red from the heat of the sun
Chain on my leg tells me not to run
My hand's are cracked, my fingers are numb
With every swing I pay (every swing I pay)
(Yah!)
For the evil I've done
Pop goes the hammer
Split goes the rock
You don't know how I wish I could stop
If I could only turn back the clock
I'd never touch a thing anybody's got
Pop goes the hammer
Split goes the rock
You don't know how I wish I could stop
If I could only turn back the clock
I'd never touch a thing (never touch a thing)
Anybody's got!
(Pop goes the hammer, split goes the rock)
(I'd never touch a thing anybody's got)