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Thread #102422   Message #2075227
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
12-Jun-07 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Collier Lad (Johnny Handle)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Collier Lad
Ok - so I won't put the words up in a little while! I have three transcriptions of the song - one in one of my early song folders (maybe from The Collier's Rant LP), one in the insert from the LP Along The Coaly Tyne and one in Lloyd's book Come All Ye Bold Miners. They three differ in orthography, but are all essentially the same as the version given by DaveS above (I chose the version from the insert - it was the easiest to type from, but there's no worth in posting it, orthography aside, it differs only in a few Weys at the start of some lines (and a glossary!) from the version above).

According to the insert it was the first song Johhny Handle wrote about mining.

Mick