The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23003   Message #3604032
Posted By: r.padgett
23-Feb-14 - 08:59 AM
Thread Name: What are 'segs'?-Testimony of Patience Kershaw
Subject: RE: What are 'segs'?
within the context of the song a "seg" could be a reference to marks on the body where pieces of coal "flints" have entered the body and are either still there or have been removed and the skin grown back over the wound

"Dust in my lungs, "blue scars" on my body a miner me for all to see"

Ray