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Thread #133439   Message #3030262
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-Nov-10 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: All the Nice Girls Love a Miner (from BBC
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tonypandy riots centerary: BBC docume
The site that S Byers provided the URL for, requires you to log in, and I am reluctant to create an account just for this. If anyone else goes there, please transcribe the lyrics and post them here.

I have failed to find any reference anywhere to ALL THE NICE GIRLS LOVE A MINER. From the title, I'd guess it's a parody of SHIP AHOY (ALL THE NICE GIRLS LOVE A SAILOR)—Words, A J Mills. Music, Bennett Scott (1909)—a music-hall song, the chorus of which is apparently familiar to almost all Brits and almost no Americans.