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Subject(s)

• Miners—Songs and music [Browse]
• Coal mines and mining—Poetry [Browse]
• Folk songs, English [Browse]
• Ballads, English [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Includes indexes.
• Includes unacc. melodies.

Bibliographic references

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 132-139).

Contents

Preface – Introduction – The Miner at Work. The Colliers’ Rant ; The Bold Miner ; Little Chance ; The Miner’s Life ; Oakey’s Keeker ; The Plodder Seam ; The Bonny Lad the Miner ; Down in a Coal-mine – The Miner at Play. Walker Pits ; Wreckenton Hiring ; Paganini, or The Pitman’s Frolic ; The Colliers’ Pay Week ; The Cock-fight ; The Kippered Herrin – Love and the Miner. The Bonny Pit Laddie ; The Collier Lad ; The Waggoner ; The Sandgate Girl’s Lamentation ; Jimmy’s Enlisted, or The Recruited Collier ; Bonny Woodha’ ; The Collier Laddie ; Six Jolly Wee Miners ; The Sandgate Lass on the Ropery Banks ; Sandgate Nursing Song ; Cushie Butterfield ; The Collier’s Wedding ; I’ll Have a Collier for my Sweetheart ; Pick, Pick, Pick – Boy Miners and Old Miners. The Putter ; Fourpence a Day ; Geordie Black ; The Banks of the Dee – The Perils of Mining. The Collier’s Lament ; The Miner’s Doom ; The Wallsend Explosion ; The Trapper Boy’s Dream, or The West Moor Colliery Explosion ; The Hartley Calamity ; The Blantyre Explosion ; The Donibristle Moss Moan Disaster ; The Gresford Disaster – Coalfield Conditions and the Struggle for a Better Life. The Pitman’s Happy Times ; A dialogue between Peter Fearless and Dick Freeman ; California ; Australia, or the Pitman’s Farewell ; The Miners’ Grievances ; The Best-dressed Man of Seghill, or the Pitman’s Reward for Betraying his Brethren ; The Coal-owner and the Pitman’s Wife ; The Ballad of Roberts ; Come All You Colliers ; Aw’s Glad the Strike’s Duin ; The Blackleg Miners ; South Medomsley Strike ; The Durham Lock-out ; The Oakey Strike Evictions ; Stand Out, Ye Miners All ; Miner’s Life Is Like a Sailor’s – A Miner’s Miscellany. Aw Wish Pay Friday Wad Come ; The Pawnshop Bleezin ; Drucken Bella Roy ; The Fiery Clock Fyece ; The Horrid War in Sandgate ; Blaydon Races ; The Sheel Raw Flood ; The Row upon the Stairs ; Durham Gaol ; The Row between the Cages – Melodies. The Colliers’ Rant ; The Plodder Seam ; Down in a Coal-Mine ; The Cockfight ; The Bonny Pit Laddie ; The Sandgate Girl’s Lamentation ; Six Jolly Wee Miners ; Fourpence a Day ; The Banks of the Dee ; The Miner’s Doom ; The Blantyre Explosion ; The Trimdon Grange Explosion ; The Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster ; The Gresford Disaster ; The Coal-owner and the Pitman’s Wife ; The Row between the Cages – Notes – Index of Titles – Index of First Lines.

LCCN

53025390

OCLC

3745504

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