This illustrates the problem with answering a request with only a link. All the links above are dead. I't's best to post both links and information. There's a YouTube video of the song here: I found lyrics here: ONE MINER'S LIFE (Ed Pickford) Now you are born, another to feed Small are our wants lad but great is our need For the work is scarce, yer dad's on the dole They want nee mair men 'cos they've got too much coal. Chorus: Wee knaas wee yer cryin' for? Wee knaas wee made us so poor? Wee knaas what yer ganna dee? Wee knaas what's in store for ye? Now you're a boy, yer play in the streets Fish in the burn and performing great feats While the pit heaps stand, marking the graves Of fathers and sons and the lives that they gave. Now you've left school, a man at thirteen Yer mother is grim as she looks at the scene And she makes up yer bait, yer off down below And away t' the pit with yer father yer go. Now yer a man, yer work in the mine With fightin' with strugglin' yer old for yer time For the work is hard, conditions are bad And yer promise yer son lad what ye nivver had. Now you are old, yer've worked aal yer can But they're closin' the pits and yer part of the plan To cut out waste, make the mines pay So t' hell with yer now lad and be on yer way. Notes Ed writes: 'Written in verse that chart a man's life. Dick Gaughan does an interpretation of it on 'True & Bold'. Bob Fox - the great North East troubadour has just released this song for Topic on his CD The Blast. Bob is carrying his songs to the world now - I'm biased because he's from the NE - but -good luck to him I say!'. Another source for lyrics: http://www.raymondfolk.com/page/One+Miner%27s+Life+%28Ed+Pickford%29
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