The Pound A Week Rise-Dick Gaughan

[ti:The Pound a Week Rise] [ar:Dick Gaughan] [al:Gaughan] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Pound A Week Rise - Dick Gaughan [00:04.30]Come all of you colliers who work down the mine [00:07.34] [00:08.03]From Scotland to South Wales from Tees dale to Tyne [00:11.38] [00:11.92]I'll sing you a song of a pound a week rise [00:14.83] [00:15.37]And the man who was fooled by the Government's lies [00:18.75] [00:19.47]And it's down you go down below Jack [00:21.71]Where you never see the skies [00:22.99] [00:23.51]And you're working in a ding eon [00:25.33]For a pound a week rise [00:27.28] [00:28.26]At nineteen and sixty a few years ago [00:31.27] [00:31.83]The mine workers' leaders to Lord Robins did go [00:35.43]Saying "We work very hard every day we risk our lives [00:39.60]And we ask here and now for a pound a week rise" [00:43.19]And it's down you go down below Jack [00:45.59]Where you never see the skies [00:47.24]And you're working in a ding eon [00:48.97]For a pound a week rise [00:50.78] [00:51.92]Then up spoke Lord Robins [00:53.62]And he made this decree [00:55.55]And "When the output rises then with you I will agree [00:59.06]To raise up all your wages [01:01.07]To give to you fair pay [01:02.44] [01:02.95]For I was once a miner and I worked hard in my day" [01:06.56]And it's down you go down below Jack [01:09.11]Where you never see the skies [01:10.94]And you're working in a ding eon [01:12.72]For a pound a week rise [01:14.56] [01:15.65]The miners they went home [01:17.56]They worked hard and well [01:19.27]With lungs full of coal dust in the bosom of hell [01:22.89]The output rose by fifteen [01:24.86]Eighteen per cent and more [01:26.74]And when two years had passed [01:28.39]And gone it rose above a score [01:30.28]And it's down you go down below Jack [01:32.75]Where you never see the skies [01:34.55]And you're working in a ding eon [01:36.39]For a pound a week rise [01:38.26] [01:39.22]Then miners they went to get their hard won prize [01:43.11]To ask Lord Robins for their pound a week rise [01:46.75]Robins wouldn't give a pound [01:48.39]He wouldn't give ten bob [01:50.21]He gave them seven and six and said no [01:52.41]"Get back to your job" [01:53.71]And it's down you go down below Jack [01:56.18]Where you never see the skies [01:57.99]And you're working in a ding eon [01:59.72]For a pound a week rise [02:02.28] [02:04.12]And come all of you colliers [02:05.69] [02:06.22]Take heed what I'm saying [02:07.94] [02:08.45]Don't believe Lord Robins [02:09.68]When he says he'll give fair pay [02:11.23] [02:11.77]He'll tell you to work hard [02:13.61]To make the output rise [02:15.42]You'll get pie in the sky [02:16.89] [02:17.41]Instead of a one pound rise