“Crooked Jack” The song is based on the accounts of appalling working conditions for Irish and Scottish workers on a hydro dam project as well as of their experience of working more broadly. ‘The Ganger” was the foreman of a group of working men. Dominic Behan wrote the song about the men who came from all over Britain and Ireland to work in the Scottish Highlands to build the Hydro-Electric dams. The workers were promised good money and outdoor work surrounded by stunning scenery, the reality saw them working in dangerous and poor conditions.
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
