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Thread #61377   Message #986537
Posted By: Gareth
19-Jul-03 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: Mining songs (UK)
Subject: RE: Mining songs (UK)
Well if yer go into advanced search and type in "Miner" Collier" & "Coal" you get a mass of returns. Both DT entries, and threads.

Some are not neccessarily releavent such as "The Mayor of Bayswater's Daughter" - Tho the DT version seems to include the South Wales version "It took a Coal Miner....",

It does not pick up "Cosher Bailey" which is a much part of South Wales Mining culture as any, and unless I have made a mistake "High Blantyre" is also missing.

A correction on "Duw its Hard" First verse - for "gurneys" read "journies" - a journy being the tram or tub used to move coal to the Pithead. This Max Boyce compesition seems to have been adopted as an anthem by the NUM (South Wales)

Happy digging.

Gareth

PS The 'Fed' - The South Wales Miners Federation - had a toast, "to the day the last man left the last pit, on the last shift" - Unfortunatley that has come true.