Jez Lowe's song, Galloways, about the pit ponies after the pits were abandoned. Si Kahn's song, Aragon Mill, about the town of Aragon, Georgia, after the mill shut down. Jean Ritchie's song, The L & N Don't Stop Here Any More: For I was born and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Holler Coal cars roaring and a tumbling past my door Now they're standing rusty, rolling empty And the L & N don't stop here any more Sam Richards' song, Goodbye to Saint Lawrence, chronicles the end of two industries, fishing and mining. Here's one stanza: When my old feller had breathed his last breath Like the others who suffered 'longside him The Company flooded the mines and pulled out Too few dollars in St. Lawrence mining Too few dollars in St. Lawrence mining Matt Armour's song, Generations of Change, absolutely first-rate song. Archie Fisher's song, Final Trawl: Now it's three long years since we made her pay Sing haul away, my laddie-o And the owners say that she's had her day And sing haul away, my laddie-o Stan Rogers, Make and Break Harbour: In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few Too many are holed up and rotten. Most houses stand empty old nets hung to dry Are blown away lost and forgotten Another Stan Rogers song, Free in the Harbour: Free in the Harbor; The Blackfish are sporting again Free in the Harbor; Untroubled by comings and goings of men Who once did pursue them as oil from the sea, Hauling away! Hauling away! Now they\re Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay, Where the whales make free in the harbor.
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