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Thread #40360   Message #577120
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
21-Oct-01 - 10:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Jowl and Listen Lad
Subject: Lyr Add: JOWL AN' LISTEN
For the sake of completeness, here it is as given by Lloyd:

JOWL AN' LISTEN

(Noted by W. Toyn from Henry Nattress of Low Fell, County Durham, in 1962)

Jowl, jowl an' listen, lad,
An' hear that coal-face workin'.
There's many a marra missin', lad,
Because he wadn't listen, lad.

Me feyther aalways used te say
That pit-work's mair than hewin'.
Ye've got te coax the crew alang,
An' not be rivin' an' tewin'.

So jowl, jowl &c.

Noo, the depitty craals fre flat te flat,
While the putter rams the tyum 'uns,
But the man at the face hes te knaa his place
Like a mother knaas her youh 'uns.

So jowl, jowl &c.

As printed in Come All Ye Bold Miners (A.L. Lloyd, 1978).  A midi made from the notation will go to the  Mudcat Midi Pages;  until then, it can be heard via the  South Riding Folk Network  site:

Jowl an' Listen