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Lyr Req/Add: When the Breaker Starts Up Full Time Related thread: Lyr Req: When the Shipyards Go Back on Full Time (11) |
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Subject: Coal Mine Song From: tremodt Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:02 PM it is an irish song about the irish coal miners in PA some tyhing about " the money will be starting when the collary machine starts working again thank you all Hop in ass ro1sin |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:04 PM Hop in Ass? No, but thanks anyway.......... Spaw |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: tremodt Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:06 PM Spaw Happy New Years |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:12 PM Yeah, well, Happy New Year's back......but I still ain't hoppin' in your ass! Spaw |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: Stewie Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:47 PM There is one from the hard-coal region of Pennsylvania called 'When the breaker starts up full time'. It begins:
Me troubles are over Mrs Murphy If it is the song you are after, I can supply the lyrics. --Stewie.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: Gareth Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:20 PM Joshing Apart - try this site for a general overview. Gareth |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: GUEST,TheBoyo Date: 30 Dec 01 - 12:13 PM Hey Stewie, yer right! The Con Carbon song! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: tremodt Date: 30 Dec 01 - 03:07 PM yes stewie i would likew the words and tune if possible ron |
Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE BREAKER STARTS UP ON FULL TIME From: raredance Date: 30 Dec 01 - 04:59 PM WHEN THE BREAKER STARTS UP ON FULL TIME
Me troubles are o'er, Missis Murphy
CH: CH: source: "Pennsylvania Songs & Legends" by George Korson, 1949, Univ. Pennsylvania Press.
rich r Click to play |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: Stewie Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:41 PM Ron, I am unable to supply the tune, but the song has been reissued on CD on Various Artists 'Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miners' Rounder CD 1502. Korson's source for the lyrics kindly posted by rich r was Jerry Byrne at Buck Run, Pennsylvania, 1946. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: Stewie Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:48 PM I meant to mention that, on the recording, Byrne substitutes 'And if I get a chance, I'll put Jamesie in pants' for the 'Cheer up Mrs Murphy ...' line in the chorus second time through. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coal Mine Song From: tremodt Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:45 PM wow that must be an old song i did not realize that thanks very much ron |
Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE BREAKER STARTS UP FULL TIME From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Jan 08 - 12:15 AM This version comes from Labor's Troubadour by Joe Glazer, 2001, page 89. Glazer says he got it from a booklet called "Con Carbon's Own Songster" which was about 60 years old when George Korson showed it to him around 1970. Glazer then recorded it on "Down in a Coal Mine," 1970. WHEN THE BREAKER STARTS UP FULL TIME Con Carbon Me troubles are o'er, Mrs. Murphy, For the Dutchman next door told me straight That the breaker starts full time on Monday. That's what he told me, any rate. Sure the boss he told Mickey this morning, When he's 'bout to enter the mine, That the coal was quite scarce down 'bout New York, And the breaker would start on full time. CHORUS: And it's oh, my, if the news be true, Me store bill's the first thing I'll pay, And a new parlor suite and a lounge I will buy, And an organ for Bridgie, hooray! Me calico skirt I'll throw into the dirt, And in silk ones won't I cut a shine? Cheer up, Mrs. Murphy. B'damn, we'll eat turkey When the breaker starts up on full time. I'll ne'er stick me hand in the washtub. The Chineeman he'll get me trade. I'll ne'er pick a coal from the dirt bank. I'll buy everything ready-made. I'll dress up me children like fairies. I'll build up a house neat and fine, And we'll move away from the Hungaries When the breaker starts up full time. CHORUS |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: When the Breaker Starts Up Full Time From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Jan 08 - 04:11 AM I posted the tune from the Korson Pennsylvania Songs and Legends book (lyrics posted by rich r above). There seem to be some typographical errors in the Korson text (elg., "what's phat he told me at any rate"). rich r corrected most of them, but it's hard to tell what "shuit" is supposed to be in the chorus. I think I'd accept "suite," which is what Jim Dixon found in the Joe Glazer text. -Joe- Click to playHere are the notes form the Rounder CD, Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miners:
Almost from the time that the first breaker cast its shadow, miners have invested it with symbolical significance. "When the Breaker Starts Up Full Time" catches the mining folk in a happy mood. After the prolonged unemployment the miners hear a rumor that their breaker is to resume production. All the good things sung of in the ballad represent so much wishful thinking because in the 1880's when the ballad appeared, luxuries were beyond reach even when the mines were working full time. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: When the Breaker Starts Up Full Time From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 09 Jan 08 - 01:14 PM I have the album by "The Irish Balladeers" that I purchased at the Anthracite Museum in Scranton,PA. which contains this song. In the last line they sing "And we'll move away from the Roundheads" instead of the "Hungaries". I am going to take this midi file to the folks at my Newsgroup which is Alt.Binaries.Karaoke and see if they can add the second stanza and chorus as well as some backing tracks so that we can have the complete song as a Van Basco file. SOL |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: When the Breaker Starts Up Full Time From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 12 Jan 08 - 07:26 PM Thanks to my good friend Ron Tilden, we now have a complete midi-karaoke file for this song. We added the second stanza and final chorus from the lyrics provided above and also spruced the file up by adding backing tracks. It is available to anyone free of charge if you PM me with your e-mail adress. SOL |
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