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Thread #118794   Message #2571670
Posted By: Mick Tems
20-Feb-09 - 08:27 AM
Thread Name: Coal Mine Songs
Subject: RE: Coal Mine Songs
Mining Songs From Wales

Yr Wyf I Little Collier (Calennig)
When The Coal Comes From The Rhondda (Calennig, additional words Mick Tems)
When April Came To Rhymney (Idris Davies, tune Mick Tems)
The Miner's Life (to the tune of Calon Lan, Mick Tems)
The Pontypridd Collier In Search Of His Wife (Mick Tems)
Can Y Streic (Song Of The Strike, tune Mick Tems)
Heroes, Rhondda Heroes
Working Today, Sir (South Wales)
The Miner's Doom (tune: Adieu To Dear Cambria)
A Tale Of Two Rivers (words and tune, Mick Tems)
A Bitter Cry For Help
New Song Of The Lock-Out In South Wales
A Song On The Present Lock-Out In South Wales and Monmouthshire Mines
Abernant
The Awful Explosion At Mardy
Can Ar Y Lock-Out
Can Newydd
The Colliery Explosion at Pennygraig (sic)

Jon Heslop, who witnessed the 1984 strike when he lived in South Wales, wrote the classic Old Soldiers. He wrote The Blackleg Drivers as a protest against the Thatcher-approved illegal motorway convoys as a consequence of the miners' strike.

Sorry, but I don't have enough time to list a proper catalogue.