Irish traditional song lyrics — collected by Beer Belly Band.
Chorus:
Farewell you collier workers the muffler and the cap
Farewell you Rhonda Valley girls we never will come back
The mines they are all closing, the valleys they’re all doomed
There’s no work in the Rhonda boys, we’ll be in London soon
My father was a miner and his father was before him
They always had been proud to work below
Since they fell neath Rowbin’s ax, all the lads have had the sack
So away to work in England we must go
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No more the Chapel singing that long ago has left us
In the public house no more the miner’s song
For the pit wheels they are stopping and the population’s dropping
And I can’t afford to stay here very long
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Traw Herbert, and Ta Orkney, Tony Penday, and Tim Oweth
Ross Na Condra, Tim Pendra all adieu
For I can no longer wait, while Parliament debates
So a fond farewell I’ll bid to all of you
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