I'd love to hear your latest song about how bad it is in the mines, but unlike you, I am not a social worker, and I have to go now because I am on early days and have to be at shaft side by 5.30am.

Oh, hang on... I have heard it after all. It was me! (circa. 1979)

Back in '75, I was at working man's club in a mining village, so virtually everyone there was a miner. I and my friends were asked to sing, and one of them genuinely thought 'Trimdon Grange' and 'The Springfield Mining disaster' might be good choices.