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T:Ten Per Cent
R:Folk Song
M:4/4
O:England
A:Lancashire
L:1/8
B:Folk Songs Of Lancashire
N:Mike Harding
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Ten Per Cent

Come Mary put me pit clogs by
From t'jacket shake the dust
We've gone on strike for ten per cent
We'll get it lass I trust.
For there's nothin' cheers a home so much
As a gradely fire of coal,
But it's as much as collier lads can do
T'keep body with the soul.

CHORUS
We've gone on strike for ten per cent.
We're not downhearted yet
We've gone on strike for ten per cent.
And ten per cent we'll get.
        
Don't bother much o'er food for me
Just see Our Joe's enough
If thee and him get decent meals
Then I'll put up wi' t' rough
And cheer up me bonny lass
And little Joe don't fret
That 'obby 'orse Aw promised thee,
When t' strike is ower tha'll get.

Pit ponies now they have browt up
That never yet saw day
The ropes are slack the wheels are still
And pit tubs rust away
The pit heads are all silent now
And childer clem for bread
The things I've seen about our streets
They fill my heart wi' dread.

I've hard work now to 'old up me 'ead
Since we've been browt so low.
And gaffers want t'lads back down t'pit
But back we winno' go.
We've bin on strike for many a week
This time we're stoppin' out
An' little Joe mun understand
It's not his fayther's fault.