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31 Aug 00 - 06:01 AM (#288397) Subject: Ballad of a Working Man From: GUEST,Joe Im looking for the words to a working song which has the following chorus Hey, hey a working day Fourteen hours to earn your pay Hey, hey a working day Cotton and coal and steel I've no idea who wrote it but I think it's contemporary rather than traditional so if anyone knows who wrote it please let me know |
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01 Sep 00 - 08:13 AM (#289142) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of a Working Man From: canoer Joe, where do you come up with this stuff? Laboring in the mines of obscure, tantalizing, fragmentary -- and totally unknown -- lyrics. Do you make this stuff up just to tease us? (BG & good luck!) -- Larry |
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15 May 06 - 12:24 AM (#1740892) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of a Working Man From: Joe Offer refresh |
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15 May 06 - 01:35 PM (#1741049) Subject: Lyr Add: BALLAD OF A WORKING MAN (Alan Bell) From: Mark Dowding "Ballad of a Working Man" was written in 1973 by Alan Bell for a BBC Radio 2 series called "Ballad of the Northwest" which went on to become a TV series for BBC Northwest viewers only with Harry Boardman as narrator. Of course none of the video tapes exist anymore although I have a dozen of them on audio cassettes where someone had stuck a microphone in front of the TV speaker to record them off air. Quality is awful but they're interesting to listen to. BALLAD OF A WORKING MAN (Alan Bell) I left the land to try and earn some pay They said there's work in Lancashire today I've torn my hands and broke my back Humping cotton and toting sacks But I've not seen much of the gold and silver coin Hey hey a working day Fourteen hours to earn your pay Hey hey a working day Cotton and Coal and Steam From Preston Bolton Oldham and by Colne I've tramped the roads and never been alone I've seen men die in falls of stone And watched men starve to skin and bone In England's pure and green and pleasant land There are looms I know that are just never still With men to work all hours to earn their fill With women grafting and children too To earn enough to see them through While the masters they get richer every day I've worked in iron and dug for Whalley coal I've followed the rails and burrowed like a mole I'm a weaver a miner a working man I'll turn my hand to owt I can For a lad must earn himself a living wage I've eyed the girls and courted with the best I've drunk my ale and idled with the rest But I'll always work and I'll always strive To try to keep myself alive But I'd rather be rich and watch the world go by Cheers Mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqh1eFQ3Wo |
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15 May 06 - 03:24 PM (#1741158) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of a Working Man From: Richard Bridge Is this place wonderful or what? |
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16 May 06 - 07:16 AM (#1741664) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of a Working Man From: GUEST,Chalkie Does anyone have the tune/chords to this? has the song been recorded on any CD's in recent years? |
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16 May 06 - 08:09 AM (#1741697) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of a Working Man From: Mark Dowding Click HERE for the Tamlyn music website and details of this song and others on Alan's CD - "The Definitive Collection" I'll post the chords when I get home. Cheers Mark |