The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17226   Message #165267
Posted By: InOBU
19-Jan-00 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pound a Week Rise (Ed Pickford)
Subject: One Pound Rise
Does anyone know the words to this Miners song? I learned it for a concert I did for the Miners strike, was it in 1984 or 1986? But, as I learned it from a friend, by ear, there are a few works I am not sure of... it starts,
Come all of you miners, who work down in the mines
In Scotland, in South Wales, in Teasdale on Tyne
and I ll tell you the story of the pound a week rise
and the men who were decieved by their governments lies

Also, anyone in Yorkshire, who reads this and knows any NUM members... I was given a gold and blue National Union of Miners, Yorksire District badge as thanks for the concert. I lost it in the bush in Quebec, while doing a civil rights survey among Innu Natives. It was rarely off my laple for many years. If anyone knows an NUM member who may be able to find another for me, I would treasure it as much, and be more careful!
All the best
Larry