Mainly Norfolk; The Old Miner - Roy Palmer noted; An old miner at Haunchwood Pit, Nuneaton [Warwickshire], made up this song to a tune he had learned in his native Durham. John Moreton heard it in the early 1960s.

BBC Radio 4 Soul Music; The Miners' Hymn - Gresford - was written by a former miner, Robert Saint, to commemorate the Gresford pit disaster in 1934. It has been played at mining events ever since, most notably at the famous Durham Miners' Gala.

Beaton Institute Music; The Miners' Memorial Hymn was written by Horatius Bonar in memory of the miners that were killed during the The Gresford Disaster at the Gresford Colliery in Northeast Wales on September 22, 1934. Words by Horatius Bonar, Tune: "Gresford"

Go, labour on while it is day;
The world's dark night is hast'ning on;
Speed thy work, cast sloth away;
It is not thus that souls are won.