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Thread #138602 Message #3172711
Posted By: MGM·Lion
19-Jun-11 - 01:54 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Songs about being unable to feed children
Subject: RE: Origins: Songs about being unable to feed your ch
In our Durham County, I am sorry for to say
That hunger and starvation is increasing every day...
The miner and his marra, too, each morning have to roam
To seek for bread to feed the hungry little ones at home ~~
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Two extracts from Tommy Armstrong's song The Durham Lockout recording a pit dispute in Co Durham in 1892.
~Michael~