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Songs 1 - 7 of 7 in Occupational

Title Performer Year Genre Listen
The Beverley Maid and the Tinker
In Beverley Town a maid did dwell,
Jim Eldon 2007 Occupational Listen
The Dalesman's Litany
It’s hard when folks can’t find their work where they’ve been bred and born;
Ray Padgett 2006 Occupational Listen
The Heckler Lad

I am a jovial heckler boy

Martin Graebe 2009 Occupational Listen
The Nobleman and the Thresherman
A nobleman met with a thresherman one day,
Frank Hinchliffe 1976 Occupational Listen
Oven Mitts

I come walking up your footpath and I ring upon your bell,

Geoff Lawes 2008 Occupational Listen
Poverty Knocks
Up ev’ry mornin’ at five,
Mick Haywood 2006 Occupational Listen
The Three Jolly Fishermen
(Lead)We are three jolly fishermen,
John Greaves 2007 Occupational Listen
 

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