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Posted By: Mark Dowding
23-Jun-08 - 06:48 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Cage (Keith Roberts)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE CAGE (Keith Roberts)
The Cage by Keith Roberts 1967
Monday morning shift number one
Wish that the day's work was over and done
Climb in the cage boys let her roll
We're the warriors who fight for the coal
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And the wheels on the headgear spin around
The cage like a stone is dropping down
Feel the blood in your ears pound
Down Down in the ground
First stop pit bottom fall like a stone
Half way down lads soon be done
There's a hell of a draught, a howling gale
As the cage whistles downwards a-telling its tale
Glaring lights, dusty floor
Meet us there outside the cage door
Crawl to the face lads sharing a joke
In a couple of hours you would die for a smoke
Sweat run freely matted hair
Glistening bodies black and bare
It's damned hard work but what do you say
Roll on Friday when we draw our pay!
Taken from "Come all ye bold miners" compiled by A.L. Lloyd revised edition 1978.
Also "The Road to Wigan Pier (and back)" by Keith Roberts c1968
Cheers
Markthe