Hi there. I dont know this version of the song, I know it as sung by Mike Harding. I do know though that the lyrics are almost identical and that the song refers to the Rosendale Valley North of Manchester in England's North West. I was a major source of half the world's cloth at one point in history, and yet poverty was rife amongst the majority of people there.

When modern goverments seek to take away hard fought for rights we now take for granted, we should all remember these days of only 150 years ago, five or six generations, when even our children were abused as part of the capitalist dream of riches.

Blessings - Ged of England.