The Big Hewer

Album by Ewan MacColl & Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger

FolkSpoken Word

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  1. 1.
    When you hew a lump of coal
    1:21
  2. 2.
    Out of the dirt and darkness I was born
    3:46
  3. 3.
    Schoolday's over; come on then, John
    2:32
  4. 4.
    Now don't be late
    2:17
  5. 5.
    You're at the pit bank
    2:39
  6. 6.
    Oh dear, the experience to go down the pit
    5:55
  7. 7.
    When I am down the pit
    1:54
  8. 8.
    So now you know how coal is got
    3:25
  9. 9.
    Jimmy, come back, come back
    2:24
  10. 10.
    Yes... he was working next to me
    4:05
  11. 11.
    And yet it's good to come from the pit
    1:33
  12. 12.
    Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand
    2:47
  13. 13.
    Down in the dark
    2:44
  14. 14.
    In Durham and Northumberland, I'm sorry for to say
    2:40
  15. 15.
    A miner has to possess that sense of humour
    3:20
  16. 16.
    Coal is a thing that's cost life to get
    5:39
  17. 17.
    Today, safety is the prime factor
    4:54
  18. 18.
    Deep down in a man's heart
    4:18

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