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The big hewer : a radio-ballad about Britain's coal miners / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: TSCD 804 | Topic RecordsPublication details: Topic Records, 1999.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Shelving location Class number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Sound Recordings Sound Recordings VWML Storage SCD 373 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only SR01049

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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