Have you heard Ernie Bailey was killed this morning
                                Ernie Bailey (song) written by Peter Ivan Fryman

                Well its time to give oer and get on our way
                Through the nine foot tunnel at the break of the day
                To wait at the pit bottom in the wind and the draught
                And wait for the onsetter to bell us up the shaft

                The men from Horizon are just coming out
                Off the loco journey to join us in the queue
                And the news that the bring is sad without doubt
                And what heart is not sad for a man we all knew

                The cutters are stopped and we'll play off today
                No colliers will come and no coal come away
                In respect of a mate who this morning was slain
                Remember his Widow and pity her pain

                For she wrote us a letter in the midst of her grief
                To thank us what we could do to relieve
                And she told us if Ernie once more had his time
                He would never regret his years down the mine

                For he knew and we know that its no love of hell
                Makes us stand in the cage and wait for the bell
                But that miners are comrades rare to be found
                Who's strength and humanity yields up the ground

                Remember that letter from his Widow so brave
                The wife of a miner understood us so fine
                And remember Ernie Bailey through the passage of time
                He was killed on the cutters in the Roger mine

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