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Blackleg Miner (Album Version)

from Golden Strings to Tether the Sun by The Rowan Amber Mill

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Our take on the traditional tune.

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It's in the evening after dark,
When the blackleg miner creeps to work,
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt,
There goes the blackleg miner!

Well he grabs his duds and down he goes
To hew the coal that lies below,
There's not a woman in this town-row
Will look at the blackleg miner.

Delaval is a terrible place.
They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face,
And around the heaps they run a foot race,
To catch the blackleg miner!
Join the union while you may.
Don’t wait until your dying day,
For that may not be far away,
You dirty blackleg miner!

Don’t go near the Seghill mine.
Across the way they stretch a line,
To catch the throat and break the spine
Of the dirty blackleg miner.

They grab his duds and his picks as well,
they hoy them down to the pit of hell.
Down you go, and fare ye well,
You dirty blackleg miner!

So join the union while you may.
Dont wait till your dying day,
For that may not be far away,
You dirty blackleg miner!

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from Golden Strings to Tether the Sun, released September 26, 2020
Kim Guy: Vocals.
Stephen: All instrumentation. Mixing. Production.

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The Rowan Amber Mill Devon, UK

Since 2007 The Rowan Amber Mill have been purveyors of Woodland Folkadelica/alt-Folk. Releases include: "folk devils & moral panics", "midsummers" and "Heartwood". The Book of the Lost (with Emily Jones). Silent Night Songs (with Angeline Morrison).The folk horror collection Harvest the Ears. The synth album Follows Shortly (as Making Tea For Robots). They are half of Rowan:Morrison. ... more

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