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Oh Dear Me​/​The Jute Mill song

from Bring out the Banners by Paul 'Bolshie' Brown

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I can’t remember not knowing this song. This anthem for Dundee’s jute workers is sung the world over.
Mary Brooksbank was a socialist, activist, songwriter and a musician/singer and she came fae Dundee. Well she moved there when young – she was born in Aberdeen. For more on Mary Brooksbank see:
womencreatingscotland.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/mary-brooksbank-poet-musician-revolutionary/
Copies of interviews of Mary by Hamish Henderson can be found at:
www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/results

lyrics

Oh dear me the mills gaein fast,
And the pair wee shifters canna get nae rest;
Shiftin bobbins, coorse and fine,
They fairly mak ye wark for your ten and nine.
Oh dear me I wish the day wis done,
Rinnin up an doun the pass is nae fun;
Shiftin, piecin, spinnin - warp, weft and twine,
Tae feed an claith ma bairnies affen ten and nine.
Chorus
Oh dear me the mills gaein fast,
And the pair wee shifters canna get nae rest;
Shiftin bobbins coorse and fine,
They fairly mak ye wark for your ten and nine.
O dear me, the warld's ill divided,
Them that works the hardest are the least provided;
But I maun bide contented, dark days or fine,
There's no much pleisure livin affen ten and nine.
Chorus

credits

from Bring out the Banners, released March 11, 2019
Copyright – SpringThyme Music | Arranged – Paul Brown and Ian Bartlett |
Words – Mary Brooksbank | Tune – Trad | Vocals – Paul Brown, Jack Penman, Ian Barlett and Jean Reid

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