raymondcrooke Jan 18, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaf2uCh0Fm0 The Pretoria Pit Disaster (by Dave Dutton) Pretoria Pit

This song was written by Dave Dutton (born 1947 in Atherton, Lancashire), an English actor who has played seven [now eleven!] different parts in the soap opera, "Coronation Street". He has written songs for the folk group The Houghton Weavers, including this one which tells the sad story of the Pretoria tragedy. The tune he used is "Tramps and Hawkers", the same melody Dylan used for "I Pity the Poor Immigrant".