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Thread #68589   Message #1156261
Posted By: Desert Dancer
06-Apr-04 - 11:23 PM
Thread Name: Coalowner & Pitman's Wife tune question
Subject: RE: Coalowner & Pitman's Wife tune question
I'll keep this thread trundling on all by myself, then. I hope it will be of use to someone else someday...

There are two more verses at the end of the song that are not recorded in the DT:

'For all you coalowners great fortunes has made
By those jovial men that works in the coal trade
Now how can you think to prosper and thrive
By wanting to starve your poor workmen alive?'
Derry down, down, down derry down.

So come ye poor pitmen and join heart and hand
For when you're of work all trade's at a stand.
In the town of Newcastle all cry out amain:
Oh gin the pits were at work once again!
Derry down, down, down derry down.


~ B in T