The Dalesman's Litany-Kacy/Clayton

[ti:The Dalesman's Litany] [ar:Kacy & Clayton] [al:The Day Is Past & Gone] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Dalesman's Litany - Kacy/Clayton [00:06.29]Composed by：Dave Keddie/F. W. Moorman [00:12.58]It's hard when folks can't find their work [00:18.05]Where they've been bred and born [00:23.88]When I was young I always thought [00:29.38]I'd bide amidst fruits and corn [00:35.20]But I've been forced to work in town [00:40.99]So here's my litany [00:46.41]From Hull and Halifax and Hell [00:52.24]Good Lord deliver me [00:58.30]When I were courtin' Mary Ann [01:03.80]T' owd squire he says one day [01:09.35]I've got no rooms for wedded folk [01:15.18]Choose whether to go or to stay [01:20.75]I could not give up the girl I loved [01:26.33]So to town I was forced to flee [01:32.08]From Hull and Halifax and Hell [01:37.86]Good Lord deliver me [01:44.14]I've wrowt I' Leeds an' Huthersfel' [01:49.44]An' addled2 honest brass [01:55.06]I' Bradforth Keighley Rotherham [02:00.92]I've kept my barns an' lass [02:06.57]I've travelled all three Ridin's round [02:12.44]And once I went to sea [02:17.99]Frae forges mills an' coalin' boats [02:23.83]Gooid Lord deliver me [02:29.56]I've walked at night through Sheffield lanes [02:35.63]T'was just like being in hell [02:41.15]Where furnaces thrust out tongues of fire [02:46.96]And roared like the wind on the fell [02:52.61]I've sammed up coals in Barnsley pit [02:58.41]With muck up to my knee [03:04.11]From Barnsley Sheffield Rotherham [03:10.04]Good Lord deliver me [03:15.84]I've seen fog grey creep ower Leeds Brig [03:21.63]As thick as bastile4 soup [03:26.95]I've lived wheer fowks were stowed away [03:32.85]Like rabbits in a coop [03:38.56]I've seen snow float down Bradford Beck [03:44.43]As black as ebony [03:50.01]From Hunslet Holbeck Wibsey Stack [03:55.78]Good Lord deliver me [04:24.29]But now that all our children have gone [04:30.37]To the country we've come back [04:36.02]There's forty miles of heathery moor [04:42.21]'Twixt us and the coal-pit stack [04:48.01]And as I sit by the fire at night [04:53.66]I laugh and shout with glee [04:59.74]From Hull and Halifax and Hell [05:05.59]The Good Lord delivered me