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Album: Miscellaneous (2008)
Artists: Lloyd

  1. Anthem For Doomed Youth
  2. Basket Of Eggs
  3. Bitter Withy
  4. Blood Red Roses
  5. Bring Em Down
  6. Coal Owner And Pitmans Wife
  7. Corpus Christi Carol
  8. Dumiama Dingiama Dumiama Day
  9. Haul Away For Rosie
  10. Haul On The Bowline
  11. Heave Away Me Johnnies
  12. Heres To The Grog
  13. Husband With No Courage In Him
  14. Mccassery
  15. New South Wales
  16. Nine Times A Night
  17. Oh Shepherd Oh Shepherd Or The Sheep Are In The Wi
  18. One Night As I Lay On My Bed
  19. Oxford City Jealous Lover
  20. Prince Heathen
  21. Rosin The Beau
  22. Rounding The Horn
  23. Santy Anna
  24. The Black Ball Line
  25. The Blackleg Miners
  26. The Bold Black And Tan
  27. The Coast Of Peru
  28. The Liverpool Judies
  29. The Mermaid
  30. The Molecatcher
  31. The Road To Gundagai
  32. The Seven Joys Of Mary
  33. The Sheep Stealer
  34. The Ship In Distress
  35. The Troopers Horse
  36. The Two Magicians
  37. The Wanton Seed


Lloyd
Miscellaneous
Coal Owner And Pitmans Wife
COAL OWNER AND PITMAN'S WIFE
by William Hornsby

A dialog I'll tell you as true as my life
Between a coal owner and a poor pitman's wife
As she was a traveling all on the highway
She met a coal owner and this she did say

Derry down, down, down derry down

Good morning Lord Firedamp, this woman she said
I'll do you no harm, Sir, so don't be afraid
If you'd been where I'd been the most of my life
You wouldn't turn pale at a poor pitman's wife

Then where do you come from, the owner he cries
I come from Hell, the woman replies
If you come from hell, then tell me right plain
How you contrived to get out again
Aye the way I got out, the truth I will tell
They're turning the poor folk all out of Hell
This to make room for the rich wicked race
For there is a great number of them in that place

And the coal owners' selves is the next on command
To arrive into Hell, as I understand
For I heard the old Devil say as I came out
The coal-owners all had received their rout

Then how does the old Devil behave in that place
Oh Sir, he is cruel to the rich wicked race
He is far more uncrueller than you can suppose
Even like a mad bull with a ring through his nose

Good woman, says he, I must bid you farewell
You give me a dismal account about Hell
If this be all true that you say unto me
I'll be home like a whippet and with my poor men agree
If you be a coal owner, Sir, take my advice
Agree with your men and give them a good price
For and if you do not, I know very well
You'll be in great danger of going to Hell

relates to a strike in Lancaster in 1844. Collected by A. L.
Lloyd. See also parody SPERRAND.


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