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Thread #25303   Message #729744
Posted By: John in Brisbane
14-Jun-02 - 02:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Man of the Earth
Subject: RE: LYRICS added for'Man of the earth'
I thought I'd go the whole hog and add the lyrics as per the newer ABC Notation Standard, as per below.

In checking my notation I note for the first time that Alan's ABC program doesn't handle tied notes correctly. (No offence Alan, we all know that your program was a milestone for submitting tunes to this place - or some of us anyway). For ties which traverse barlines the hyphen should go BEFORE the barline rather than after it, as in Bob's example above.

X:1
T:Man Of The Earth - Jock Graham/Phyl Lobl
M:3/4
Q:1/4=150
K:C
A5 A|A B3 A2|A4 ^F ^F|A4 B A|A4 ^F2|A A3 A2|A2 G2 ^F2|
w:By pro-fess-ion and birth I'm a man of the earth, I bur-row in it like a
E6-|E4G2|GA3G2|GE3G2|GA3G2|GE3G2|G9/4A3E3/4|
w:mole _ I dig it and drill it and blast it and fill it for that great co-
G^C3E2|D6-|D4 D2|^C2 ^C2 D2|E2 ^C2 A,2|D2 D2 E2|
w:mod-it-y coal _ To some I'm a brave man, to oth-ers a
^F2D2D2|^C^C3D2|E2G2B2|A6-|A4D2|G2G2B2|B2G2G2|
w:knave man, who's put-ting the land in a hole _ A strike and a-ttack man, a
^F2^F2A2|A2^F2 ^F2|E2G3G|G^C3E2|D19/4||
w:black man and slack man, who plun-ders the count-ry for coal.
W:
W: It's narkin' art times to be blamed for their crimes,
W: And placed in a villainous role -
W: Invented by story, press-jury and tory;
W: The profit-made agents of coal.
W:
W: No story of men who are suffering pain;
W: Of heroes who starve on the dole;
W: Nought written or spoken of hearts that are broken:
W: The widows and orphans of coal.
W:
W: The court is the gauge which determines my wage,
W: The parson looks after my soul;
W: My hands are my boss's, his gains are my losses;
W: My body is bartered for coal.
W:
W: The gaps in our lines: "Red roll of the mines",
W: Show death has been takin' his toll,
W: While snipers at maimed men and dead men and famed men
W: Grow fat on the blood on the coal.
W:
W: Yet through muck and mire - and lung-dust and fire,
W: More clearly I'm seein' my goal:
W: Of diggin' and drillin' and blastin' and fillin';
W: Supplyin' a socialised coal.