Blackleg Miner Lyrics

The song Blackleg Miner is performed by Richard Thompson in the album named Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CD & 1 DVD Set) in the year 2006 .



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.
Oh, Delaval is a terrible place,
They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face,
And around the heaps they run a footrace
to catch the blackleg miner.
And even down near the Seghill mine,
Across the way they stretch a line
To catch the throat, to break the spine
of the dirty blackleg miner.
They grabbed his duds, his picks as well,
And they hoy them down the pit of hell,
Down you go, we pay you well,
You dirty blackleg miner.
It's in the evening after dark
that the blackleg miner creeps to work,
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt,
There goes the blackleg miner.
So join the union while you may,
Don't wait 'til your dying day
For that may not be far away,
You dirty blackleg miner




Richard Thompson - Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CD & 1 DVD Set)

Jun 2006

  1. Sumer Is Icumen In
  2. King Henry
  3. Bonnie St. Johnstone
  4. O Sleep Fond Fancy
  5. Remember O Thou Man
  6. O Shenandoah
  7. Blackleg Miner
  8. I Live In Trafalger Square
  9. There is Beauty In the Bellow of the Blast
  10. Java Jive
  11. Night and Day
  12. Orange Coloured Sky
  13. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-Dee
  14. A-11
  15. See My Friends
  16. Friday On My Mind
  17. Oops!...I Did It Again
  18. Cry Me A River
  19. 1985
  20. Sam Hall


Blackleg Miner