Lyr Req: Yorkshire Mining and Industrial songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Mining and Industrial songs
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 03 Oct 24 - 08:10 PM

The first one is Working Man (Rita MacNeil), nowt to do with Lofthouse.
The second seems to be an original composition by a group member.
So I'll keep looking!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Mining and Industrial songs
From: r.padgett
Date: 06 Oct 24 - 05:35 AM

I suspect old Tykes' News diary may have the song ~ and I am aware of it's existence (the song)

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Mining and Industrial songs
From: cujimmy
Date: 07 Oct 24 - 11:43 AM

Interstingly to note Ray, David etc on this day 07 October 1872 34 Men and boys were lost at the Morely Main colliery disaster in West Yorkshire. There is a poem called In His Hand by Stuart Bailey which I will try to add here

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=8848879625156783&set=p.8848879625156783&type=3&locale=en_GB

Hope this works. Its a very good poem and well worth adding to the Yorkshire Garland collection I would say - best regardss - Jimmy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Mining and Industrial songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Oct 24 - 12:05 PM

Here is a link to Keith Marsden’s song MORLEY MAIN in the Mudcat Thread any October Songs    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170379&messages=229#morelymain:~:text=MORLEY%20MAIN%0Aby%20Keith%20Marsden

Subject: ADD: Lofthouse Mine Disaster (Peter Thorpe)
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 13 Oct 24 - 06:46 PM

At last, I found the words to the Peter Thorpe song referred to in the OPs above, courtesy of the estimable Doug Olsen, who learned the song from the author himself in 1979.
Doug recorded the song on his 2006 CD of poems, songs and readings "A Single Voice" (Tosspot Records TD147).

THE LOFTHOUSE MINE DISASTER
(by Peter Thorpe, Yorkshire)

Come ye people, come and listen
Of a story to relate
It’s a tale of pit disaster
When seven miners met their fate
Underground boys, underground boys
Seven miners met their fate.

It was in the village of Lofthouse
In the year of seventy-three
Seven miners worked through the night shift
Not knowing daylight no more they’d see
No more they’d see, boys   (etc)

Then suddenly without warning,
The face it did burst out
And a rushing wall of water
Put every man on that face to rout
That wall of water etc

The word has spread across the country
Seven miners trapped have been
Rescue teams with their equipment
Were quickly rushed to the scene
With all speed boys,   etc

For five long days they battled on
For to reach a pocket of air
When they reached it, it was empty
Which throwed them in deep despair
All their hopes, boys, all their hopes, boys
Was shot up then and there.

Charlie Korton’s body
Was the only one they found
The rest were then sealed in
That their final resting ground
Now a monument on the hillside
In memorial is found

When you’re sitting by your fire
In the comfort of your home
Remember these poor miners
How they died in that dreadful tomb
Underground boys, underground boys
They died in that dreadful tomb.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Mining and Industrial songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Oct 24 - 06:37 AM

This may interest you Rayhttps://media.efdss.org/resourcebank/docs/RB317ShotsFired-BryonyGriffith.pdf