Subject: RE: refugee and immigration songs
From: Maryrrf Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:32 PM

I seem to recall a Mudcatter posting lyrics he had written about the immigrants in Britain who were drowned gathering cockles, but can't remember who it was. Mudcatter InObu has written many songs about the (recent) immigrant experience in the US including Amadou Diallo.

There are certainly two songs about the cockle pickers;

On Morecambe Bay
Written by Kevin Littlewood of Southport and recorded by Christy Moore

Out beyond the street lamps where the calliopes roar
Past the wrack and samphire, beyond the shore
I’ve seen them walking through the tide as rain cuts through the spray
Chinese cockle-pickers on the sands of Morecambe Bay

Morecambe Bay
Written by Maggie Holland as she passed by the sands on the train, to the tune of Moreton Bay