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This song became popular again during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984-85.
If you do web searches about this song some claim it to have real age attached to it, but I reckon that it has Bert Lloyd’s sticky fingers all over it.
mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/biography.html
I love that it doesn’t sit on the fence.

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It's in the evenin after dark
When the blackleg miner creeps to work
With his moleskin pants an dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg miner
He takes his pick an doon he goes
To hew the coal that lies below
But there's not a woman in this town row
Would look at a blackleg miner
Oh, Delaval is a terrible place
They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face
Around the pit-heaps they run a foot race
To catch the blackleg miner
Divvn't gan near the Seghill mine
Across the way they stretch a line
To catch the throat an break the spine
Of the dirty blackleg miner
Tak your tools an gear as well
An hoy them doon the pit of hell
Doon ye go an fare ye well
Ye dirty blackleg miner
So join the union while ye may
Don't wait until your dying day
For that may not be far away
Ye dirty blackleg miner

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from Bring out the Banners, released March 11, 2019
Trad | Arranged – Paul Brown | Vocals – Paul Brown, Jean Reid and Noel Armstrong

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