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mark gregory Lyr Add: The Colliers' Strike Song (1885) (4) RE: Lyr Add: The Colliers' Strike Song (1885) 09 Feb 09


yes I think a number of Come All Ye tunes would fit the bill, but what about Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane which was very popular in Australia at the time the song was written?

btw

Folklorist Graham Seal writes:
It looks like an adaptation of a song or poem said to be related to the 3rd August 1795 food riot in Rochdale. If so, a good example of the continuity of folk tradition.

The masters they are grumbling in country and in town
They want to starve the workers by keeping wages down.
Now in some parts of England the men were standing out
Against a great reductionand they're right without a doubt.
In this happy country, man is treated like a slave
When the master gets the profit and the worker gets the work.
You've no right to be happy, no right to be well fed,
If they drop our wages, they must drop the price of bread.

The above is quoted on http://www.link4life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=c.showPage&pageID=310


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