From 1902, the classic descriptive comic song – Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill – recounting the days of Irish workers drilling and blasting for the railways.

Company Edison's National Phonograph Company Cylinder # 1020 (5" diameter) Category Song Title Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Performed by Arthur Collins Circa 1902 Announcement "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill, sung by Arthur Collins.  Edison record."

Oh, ev'ry morn' at seven o'clock There are twenty tarriers on the rock, The boss comes along and says "be still And put all your power in the cast-steel drill:" Then drill, ye tarriers drill, Drill, ye tarriers, drill. Oh it's work all day without sugar in your tay when ye work be-yant on the rail-way, And drill, ye tarriers, drill. The boss was a fine man all around But he married a great, big, fat far-down, She baked good bread and baked it well, And baked it hard as the bobs of H—l ...

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