The MArtin Carthy/DAve Swarbrick version is much to fast for my recollection.

Dating from 1970, performed by Northern Front at the Londonderry in Sunderland, it was sung almost as a dirge, "By-ker hill and Wa-lker shore", beat, "Collier lads for ever more". Check with Ed Pickford, songwriter and ex-Northern Front for serious miner musical interpretation.

Sunderland born, Byker bred.