[Verse 1: Audie McGinnis]
Come Irishmen both young and stern
With adventure in your soul
There are better ways to spend your days
Than workin' down a hole

[Verse 2: Sav Sankaran]
I curse the day I went away
To work on those hydro dams
All our sweat and tears, our hopes and fears
Bound up with shuttering jams

[Chorus: Sav Sankaran with John Doyle]
I was tall and true, all of six-foot-two
'Til they broke me across my back
By a name I'm known and it's not my own
They call me Crooked Jack

[Verse 3: John Doyle]
And I've seen old men before their time
Their faces drawn and gray
But I ain't never thought so soon would mine
Be lined in that self same way

[Chorus: John Doyle with Sav Sankaran]
And I was tall and true, all of six-foot-two
But they broke me across the back
And by a name I'm known, it's not my own
They call me Crooked Jack
[Verse 4: Audie McGinnis, Sav Sankaran & John Doyle]
They say that honest toil is good
For the body and the soul
But believe me boys, it's for sweat and blood
That they want you down a hole

[Chorus: Audie McGinnis, Sav Sankaran & John Doyle]
I was tall and true, all of six-foot-two
But they broke me across my back
By a name I'm known, it's not my own
They call me Crooked Jack
They call me Crooked Jack