Lee Dorsey - Working in a Coalmine
Lee Dorsey Old Pa's Poetry Corner Wednesday Club
WEDNESDAY CLUB
COAL PORTING
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| BOYS FROM THE BLACK STUFF? |
He is another attempt at a folk type song, I like the idea, all the hardship, but what is hardship if you don't know any better?. If a bird is born in a cage does he know the freedom of flight.
THE COAL PORTER
me and Bevan to the seven sisters
our first day after leaving school
we join the men an wi ma dad
head on to gates of the mine
we feel as if we're all grown up
at last I've become a man
no childish games of tag and chase
I will hand ma pay to mi mam
down and down
into the earth we go
deep down to the very bottom
no daylight shines from 6 to 6
is there more to life than this?
it's not all I thought it would be
I so wish I was back in school
every day falls into the other
the same old toil and grind
I look forward to Friday nights
the only hope I can see
I scrub the dust meet my mates
for a few hours I can be free
time has come I'm off the age
to join all the men in the pub
drink and sing and rugby talk
we soon head to the hop
it's there I met my Carys Jones
with hair as dark as coal
we'll be married in the church
in our own home our goal
down and down
into the earth we go
deep down to the very bottom
no daylight shines from 6 to 6
is there more to life than this?
married now all of fifteen years
got six bairns to feed and clothe
yes we got a house of our own
but never a holiday we had
everyday day head for the mine
with Evan my first born
these's rumours the mine to close
our lives could soon be torn
down and down
into the earth we go
deep down to the very bottom
no daylight shines from 6 to 6
is there more to life than this?
