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saw steeleye play this in the midst of the miners strike against thatcher. I defy anyone who was there to tell me folk music has no relevance!
Richard Thompson - Blackleg Miner download song
- Artist: Richard Thompson
- Song: Blackleg Miner
- Genre: Pop
- Length: 03:24
- Size: 8MB
- Bitrate: 320Kbps
- Date: 2021-05-23
- Upload by: Gyp Rosetti
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Comments
Tim Zimmaro
My Pa started mining coal in the '20s as a youngster in Cessnock in the Hunter Valley. He had maybe 6 years education. He was, as a 17 year old., the 10,000 strong protest march, led by the Kurri Kurri pipe band, after the police killed miner Norman Brown in '29 at the Rothbury pit. Imagine the sight of those fine men, 10,000 of them. We will likely never see such tough workers again. Remember them. Solidarity. Workers of the world are brothers and sisters. By Schiller in german: Alle menschen werden bruder.
Jacob Krausch
I remember hearing this song when i was a kid as part of an educational history thing on bbc alway stayed with me and now i find this version. fantastic stuff
The Rome Of Empire
Marvelous version on "The blackleg miner" first heard Gay and Terry Woods do it with "The Woods Band" way back when, strong and all as their version was Thompsons version is far better. It's great to hear him do it live, having said that nearly everything is great to hear Thompson do live.
vilma contreras g.
Fraternal greetings from an ex Durham coal miner. workers of all lands unite.
katheezy811
actually, i agree with you. folk music is always limited in school curricula and usually to stuff that nobody could possibly really like. and it puts people off folk music for life.
Magnus Kvalsøy
In "The Scab", Jack London famously wrote that "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out..."
Manuel Aparicio
I am a Miner till I die, My first strike was in 1972, Second in 1974, and the last one in 1984/85.......We didn't want to know the Politics of Scargill and Maggie. We just wanted to save our jobs.......The Liberals and Torys are taking the Country back to the 1800 hundreds where the workers were afraid to say Boo to the Bosses. Keep the people down and they won't answer back.......
Eire Mac Aodhagain
I worked in mines in Northumberland between 1968 and 1972. The Seghill mine headgear was still in place at that time, although the mine had closed. I sometimes perform this song myself.
Moni Dock
Richard Thompson makes me smile and want to cry....he is amazing!
Kylen Sterling
Anyone else think this sounds a bit like Galway girl...
LitTv
Glück auf! Greetings to all Miners.
A special thanks to all the significant others of the brave men. You keep them grounded - or better "uplifted"
Wahrheitssuche2017
Actually the first time I heard this song was on a programme on the BBC early on a Saturday morning. The programme was for kids and used the song to try to explain the strikes and bitterness that came from them. The song stuck in my head till I heard RT dong this.
RADIATION DAP
Can't think of many people who work as hard as miners. Good song
stronsky67
This ex miner thanks this great artist for his valuable work. One day it will touch someone who can make a real diference to the lives of ordinary people.
Andreina Loor.C
This is an incredible rendition of a traditional song.
CANYON KILLER
Steeleye Span did a great version of this song way way back on their “Hark the Village Wait” album. The album they recorded with Gay and Terry Woods. Terry had earlier played with “Sweeney’s Men” and later went on to join “The Pogues”.
Kyle Davis
Great stuff and that "1000 years of Popular music" should be on the school crariculam