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Blackleg Miner (Single Edit)

from Among the Gorse to Settle Scores by The Rowan Amber Mill

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Recorded under lockdown during April 2020.
This is a cover of one of our favourite traditional songs.
We are working again (after a 10 year hiatus) with the considerable singing and musical talents of Kim Guy.
This particular songs seems appropriate in these times.
When we come out the other side of this dreadful situation, we are going to need more than ever before to join together in true solidarity, to ensure that everybody can get back on their feet, and to build a better future for one and all.

lyrics

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!

credits

from Among the Gorse to Settle Scores, released June 26, 2020
Trad arr Stephen Stannard.
Vocal: Kim Guy
Stephen Stannard. Instrumentation, mixing and productrion. Cover design.

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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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