The big hewer : a radio-ballad about Britain's coal miners /
SCD 373 Sound Library
MacColl, Ewan
The big hewer : a radio-ballad about Britain's coal miners / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. - Topic Records, 1999. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc. Written by Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. First released by Argo in 1967. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 18/8/1961, produced by Charles Parker. Musical instruments: concertina, harmonica, clarinet, tin whistle; double-bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, autoharp.
1. When you hew a lump of coal -- 2. Out of the dirt and darkness I was born -- 3. Schooldays over, come on then, John -- 4. Now don't be late -- 5. You're at the pit bank -- 6. Oh dear, The experience to go down the pit -- 7. When I am down in the pit -- 8. So now you know the coal how it is got -- 9. Jimmy, come back, come back -- 10. Yes.he was working next to me -- 11. And yet its good to come from the pit -- 12. Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand -- 13. Down in the dark -- 14. In Durham and Northumberland, I'm sorry for to say -- 15. A miner has to possess that sense of humour -- 16. Coal is a thing that's cost life to get -- 17. Today, safety is the prime factor -- 18. Deep down in a man's heart.
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