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| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Durham Lockout | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 5 | | | | Lyrics: | DURHAM LOCKOUT
by Tommy Armstrong
In our Durham County, I am sorry for to
say
That hunger and starvation is increasing every day
For the want of food and coals, we
know not what to do
But with your kind assistance, we will stand the struggle
through
I need not state the reason why we have been brought so low
The masters have
behaved unkind, as everyone well know
Because we won't lie down and let them treat us as they
like
To punish us they've stopped their pits and caused the present
strike
The pulley wheel have ceased to move which went so swift around
The horses
and the ponies too are brought from underground
Our work is taken from us now, they care not if
we die
For they can eat the best of food and drink the best when dry
The miner and
his marra, too, each morning have to roam
To seek for bread to feed the hungry little ones at
home
The flour barrel is empty now, their true and faithful friend
Which makes the
thousands wish today the strike was at an end
We have done our very best as honest
working men
To let the pits commence again, we've offered to them ten
The offer they will
not accept, they firmly do demand
Thirteen and a half percent or let the collieries
stand
Let them stand or let them lie to do with them as they choose
To give them
thirteen and a half we ever shall refuse
They're always willing to receive, but never inclined
to give
Very soon they won't allow a working man to live
With tyranny and capital
they never seem content
Unless they are endeavoring to take from us percent
If it was due,
what they request, we willingly would grant
We know it's not, therefore we cannot give them
what they want
The miners of Northhumberland, we shall forever praise
For being so
kind in helping us, those tyrannizing days
We thank the other counties too, that have been
doing the same
For every man who hears this song will know we're not to blame
@work
@union @England @mine
by Tommy Armstrong(1848-1919)
recorded on Tommy Armstrong of
Tyneside (Topic)
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