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Thread #78610 Message #1417516
Posted By: GUEST,mick
22-Feb-05 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: Lyr: thirty years a ganger and never sacked a man
Subject: RE: thirty years a ganger and never sacked a man
That's really all I can remember of the song ; I was always impressed by those two lines myself . I heard them from my father who was a leading miner ;he worked building the underground tunnels ,sewers etc all around England . A ganger or gangerman is a man in charge of a small gang of navvies . My old fella is into his ninetees now. When I see him again I'll ask him if he knows any more of the words ,but his memory is slipping as you can guess