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Thread #171651   Message #4152117
Posted By: Monologue John
06-Sep-22 - 05:27 AM
Thread Name: Mining songs NOT about coal?
Subject: RE: Mining songs NOT about coal?
No 1 Horizon Parker Shaft 1948        Written by Peter Ivan Fryman

                When Jimmie Doohan fell down the shaft
                And left his wife and kids
                They fixed a new device up
                It must have cost them quids
                
                So let us praise our management
                For safety so extensive
                They've fixed up foolproof signals now
                And it was So expensive
                Hell – It was bloody expensive

                Jim's wife got pensioned off
                The N.C.B. got coal
                --One day they'll look before they leap
                Down that bloody hole

                Workers die like matyrs
                Like Jesus on the cross
                Jesus died for the people
                Jim died for the boss