If memory serves (From "The Stirrings in Sheffield")

Sorry to do you out of the fun of typing Malcolm :)

To be a Sheffield Grinder it is no easy trade
There's more than you'd imagine to the grinding of a blade
The strongest man among us is old at thirty-two
There's few as suffer such hardship as Sheffield grinders do

When the country goes to war then our masters quickly cry
All orders countermanded our goods we must lay by
Our prices we must settle and you'll be stinted too
There's few as suffer such hardship as Sheffield grinders do

For many's the poor grinder who,s family is large
With all his best endeavours cannot his debts discharge
When his children cry for bread how pitiful the view
There's few as suffer such hardship as Sheffield grinders do

And every working day he is breathing dust and steel
and a broken stone can give a man a wound that will not heal
There's many a man among us cut down by such a blow
There's few as suffer such hardship as Sheffield grinders do

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