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Coal Owner And Pitmans Wife
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Coal owner and pitman's wife
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By William Hornsby
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A dialog I'll tell you as true as my life
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Between a coal owner and a poor pitman's wife
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As she was a traveling all on the highway
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She met a coal owner and this she did say
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Derry down, down, down derry down
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Good morning Lord Firedamp, this woman she said
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I'll do you no harm, Sir, so don't be afraid
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If you'd been where I'd been the most of my life
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You wouldn't turn pale at a poor pitman's wife
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Then where do you come from, the owner he cries
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I come from Hell, the woman replies
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If you come from hell, then tell me right plain
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How you contrived to get out again
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Aye the way I got out, the truth I will tell
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They're turning the poor folk all out of Hell
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This to make room for the rich wicked race
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For there is a great number of them in that place
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And the coal owners' selves is the next on command
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To arrive into Hell, as I understand
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For I heard the old Devil say as I came out
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The coal-owners all had received their rout
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Then how does the old Devil behave in that place
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Oh Sir, he is cruel to the rich wicked race
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He is far more uncrueller than you can suppose
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Even like a mad bull with a ring through his nose
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Good woman, says he, I must bid you farewell
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You give me a dismal account about Hell
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If this be all true that you say unto me
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I'll be home like a whippet and with my poor men agree
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If you be a coal owner, Sir, take my advice
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Agree with your men and give them a good price
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For and if you do not, I know very well
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You'll be in great danger of going to Hell
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Relates to a strike in Lancaster in 1844. Collected by A. L.
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Lloyd. See also parody sperrand.
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Filename[ coalownr
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Play. Exe derrydwn
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Sf
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