The Blackleg Miner-Steeleye Span

[ti:The Blackleg Miner] [ar:Steeleye Span] [al:The All New Electric Muse - The Story Of Folk Into Rock] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]The Blackleg Miner - Steeleye Span [00:00.02]Written by：Terry Woods/Traditional/Ashley Hutchings/Tim Hart/Maddy Prior/Gay Woods [00:00.31]It's in the evening after dark [00:04.66]When the blackleg miner creeps to work [00:09.32]With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt [00:14.13]There goes the blackleg miner [00:18.45] [00:19.29]Well he grabs his duds and down he goes [00:23.70]To hew the coal that lies below [00:28.20]There's not a woman in this town row [00:32.72]Will look at the blackleg miner [00:36.71] [00:58.78]Oh delaval is a terrible place [01:01.44]They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face [01:03.93]And around the heaps they run a foot race [01:06.51]To catch the blackleg miner [01:08.74]And divvnt gan near the seghill mine [01:11.25]Across the way they stretch a line [01:13.70]To catch the throat and break the spine [01:16.13]Of the dirty blackleg miner [01:19.10] [01:38.26]They grab his duds and his picks as well [01:40.66]They hoy him down to the pit of hell [01:43.34]Down you go and fare yee well [01:45.54]You dirty blackleg miner [01:48.09]It's in the evening after dark [01:50.51]When the blackleg miner creeps to work [01:52.88]With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt [01:55.38]There goes the blackleg miner [01:57.76] [02:17.21]So join the union while you may [02:19.90]Don't wait 'til your dying day [02:22.24]For that may not be far away [02:27.12]You dirty blackleg miner