Tune Req: Tadley Treacle Mining Disaster

13 Apr 05 - 11:39 AM (#1460049)
Subject: ADD: Tadley Treacle Mining Disaster
From: fiddler

I know there have been treacle mine discussions in teh past but I didn't find this!

I found it elsewhere!

Anyone suggest a tune or recognise the meter that it may have been written for?

THE TADLEY MINING DISASTER

'Twas on the third day of July
And twelve strong men were about to die
At the Tadley Treacle Mines
They were working fast without a care
When a tunnel collapsed and trapped them there
At the Tadley treacle mines

No noise was heard above the ground
When evening came they couldn't be found
At the Tadley Treacle Mines
They searched it here, they searched it there
But could not find them anywhere
At the Tadley Treacle Mines

Then one man came from underground
And told them everything he found
At the Tadley Treacle Mines
I saw a tunnel blocked with clay
But it was open yesterday
At the Tadley Treacle Mines

Then all the men went down the pit
And tried to clear the earth a bit
At the Tadley Treacle Mines
They dug all night, they dug all day
And finally cleared the earth away
At the Tadley Treacle Mines

They found twelve men a-lying there
Upon the ground so cold and bare
At the Tadley Treacle Mines
They carried them to the light
So all could see the ghastly sight
At the Tadley Treacle Mines

They buried them there that very day
And to this day their bodies lay
At the Tadley Treacle Mines
So gentlemen take heed I pray
And do not go to work today
At the Tadley Treacle Mines





Andy

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13 Apr 05 - 09:28 PM (#1460570)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tadley Treacle Mining Disaster
From: GUEST,leeneia

Some work of Lewis Carroll (or was it Edward Lear) clearly states that treacle comes from a treacle well. What about that?

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25 Oct 20 - 05:25 PM (#4076825)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tadley Treacle Mining Disaster
From: keberoxu

Leeneia:
you are thinking of Lewis Carroll's immortal DORMOUSE,
who was always going on about treacle.
This was at the dinner party
attended by Alice in Wonderland,
with the insecure and defensive Mad Hatter,
speaking up for the Dormouse:

"You can draw water out of a water well,
so you ought to draw treacle out of a treacle well,
eh stupid?"

Which reminds me of a moment later in the book,
where the Red Queen is trying to outtalk everyone else,
and is interrupted by a sleepy voice which drawls,
"TREACLE."

And the Red Queen loses it:
"Behead that Dormouse!!"

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25 Oct 20 - 10:06 PM (#4076852)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tadley Treacle Mining Disaster
From: Nigel Parsons

If we're going back to source I should point out that the character is "The Hatter". While it is stated that he is "quite mad" Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) never describes him as "The Mad Hatter".

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