This song tells the true story of a group of Irish immigrants, who, like many others from their country, built railroads in America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The 57 men mentioned here had worked on the most treacherous mile of a rail, and because the conditions were so rough, the rail company claimed that the men died from natural causes while building it.
Years later, claims surfaced that the rail company simply did not want to pay the workers for the job they did and murdered them instead. Several of the bodies where exhumed and were each found to have bullet holes in their skulls.
This song tells the true story of a group of Irish immigrants, who, like many others from their country, built railroads in America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The 57 men mentioned here had worked on the most treacherous mile of a rail, and because the conditions were so rough, the rail company claimed that the men died from natural causes while building it.
Years later, claims surfaced that the rail company simply did not want to pay the workers for the job they did and murdered them instead. Several of the bodies where exhumed and were each found to have bullet holes in their skulls.