The Lingan Strike-Maria Dunn

[ti:The Lingan Strike] [ar:Maria Dunn] [al:For A Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:21.25]We're all the way from Lanarkshire we’re thirty hardy men [00:25.13]And we've crossed the bold Atlantic to the shores of Cape Breton [00:28.75]They told us there'd be honest work there's scarce of that at home [00:32.69]But today we lay our tools down as if that coal was stone [00:36.76]As if that coal was stone [00:41.26]For Lingan we were headed boys and thought we had it made [00:45.33]A rich seam lay in waiting for our skilled and eager trade [00:49.34]But just before we landed well the story it came 'round [00:52.28]That a hundred solid local men would not go underground [00:56.97]Would not go underground [01:00.29]And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone [01:03.60]But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong [01:07.61]The right man from the wrong [01:12.61]The tale was too familiar-we'd been through the same at home [01:16.36]Where a man could labour years and still be cast out on his own [01:20.31]If ever he should fall sick or be injured in the mine [01:24.00]It's as if he'd never given of his breath or of his time [01:27.87]His breath or of his time [01:30.32] [01:31.07]And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone [01:34.64]But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong [01:38.58]The right man from the wrong [01:47.09] [02:01.86]We'd rather make it empty-handed back across the sea [02:05.50]Than rob our Gaelic brothers in their fight for dignity [02:09.50]They say a hungry belly can cloud a man's resolve [02:13.26]But sharp as tacks we saw our brothers' backs against the wall [02:17.20]Their backs against the wall [02:20.33]And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone [02:24.03]But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong [02:27.97]The right man from the wrong [02:30.91]Yes here we are but poor men three thousand miles and oh [02:34.53]We can see as clear as day how close we are to home [02:38.48]How close we are to home