More-Seth

More - Seth A breaker’s life is solid, ’til the fire burns away Every day is danger’s way of sharpening up the blade Old tunnels play those tricks on you Heed no hopeless tale Keep your hand upon the hammer And your eye upon the scale With all this trouble ended now These men will have their rights After many years of bondage Digging days and digging nights This honest weight of labour Bold breakers never fail Keep your hand upon the hammer And your eye upon the scale Chorus: More than money can weigh you down More than money can dig new ground Let no union man be weakened By the papers’ false reports You can’t read or write when you work all night And you fight for freedom’s cause Raise the rhythm, drive the drill in Ride that rusty nail Keep your hand upon the hammer And your eye upon the scale Chorus: You’ve been docked and flogged and shocked my boys You’ve been loading two-to-one Spilling carts and falling sparks They’re slicing up your lungs Overalls and cans for rockers In shanties sleep on rails Keep your hand upon the hammer And your eye upon the scale Chorus: Bear a lonely witness to these images of time Meat and muscle, trade and hustle Reap those dirty rhymes No quick return as daylight burns These tears of sweat prevail Keep your hand upon the hammer And your eye upon the scale Chorus