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Songs 1 - 17 of 17 in Mining

Title Performer Year Genre Listen
The Apprentice Dialler

Got me dudley  and me snap tin , got me cap lamp and me dial ,

Terry Armitage 2009 Mining - Coal 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
Fearless Collier Lad

I am a fearless collier lad as brave as brave can be,

Ray Padgett 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
Fourpence A Day

Ore's a-waiting in the tubs, snow's upon t'fell,

Cedric Binns 2005 Mining Lead Listen
The Grosmont Miner

I am a Grosmont miner,

Tony Morris 2005 Mining - Iron Listen
Manvers Main Lockout

At Manvers Main we are locked out, for what we do not know,

Keith Tomlinson 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
The Oaks Pit Disaster

There is weeping and wailing in many a dwelling,

Keith Tomlinson 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
Orgreave

We’d come on a picket before break of day,

Ray Padgett 1994 Mining - Coal Listen
The Pit Boy

The sun is sinking fast, mother, behind yon far blue hills,

Ray Padgett 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
Pony Driver's Song

(For) I am a driver, these are me tubs, Ah’m up the road, old (lads) boys, my pony rubs,

Mick Haywood 1999 Agriculture Listen
Red and Black

Fire is red and coal is black; they’ll burn your flesh or break your back.

George Hill 2009 Steel Coal Listen
Six Jolly Miners
Six jolly miners, we’re not worth a pin, 		Lou Wroe 1975 Ritual Listen
The Super and the Snowman

It was in nineteen-eighty-five, all in the wintertime,

Keith Tomlinson 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
The Testament of Patience Kershaw

It’s kind of you to ask me, sir, to tell you how I spend the day.

Hilary Simpson 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
Tobacco Song

Off to the pit with a whistle and a grin,

Ray Padgett 2009 Mining - Coal Listen
The Trip

I rise at all hours so early in the morn

Steve Gardham 2009 Canal Listen
The Westwood Rows

In nineteen-sixty-nine the Council bulldozed all the Rows;

George Hill 2009 Steel Coal Listen