Coal Owner And Pitmans Wife Lyrics - Singles - Lloyd

COAL OWNER AND PITMAN'S WIFE 

by William Hornsby 

A dialog I'll tell you as true as my life 

Between a coal owner and a poor pitman's wife 

As she was a traveling all on the highway 

She met a coal owner and this she did say 

Derry down, down, down derry down 

Good morning Lord Firedamp, this woman she said 

I'll do you no harm, Sir, so don't be afraid 

If you'd been where I'd been the most of my life 

You wouldn't turn pale at a poor pitman's wife 

Then where do you come from, the owner he cries 

I come from Hell, the woman replies 

If you come from hell, then tell me right plain 

How you contrived to get out again 

Aye the way I got out, the truth I will tell 

They're turning the poor folk all out of Hell 

This to make room for the rich wicked race 

For there is a great number of them in that place 

And the coal owners' selves is the next on command 

To arrive into Hell, as I understand 

For I heard the old Devil say as I came out 

The coal-owners all had received their rout 

Then how does the old Devil behave in that place 

Oh Sir, he is cruel to the rich wicked race 

He is far more uncrueller than you can suppose 

Even like a mad bull with a ring through his nose 

Good woman, says he, I must bid you farewell 

You give me a dismal account about Hell 

If this be all true that you say unto me 

I'll be home like a whippet and with my poor men agree 

If you be a coal owner, Sir, take my advice 

Agree with your men and give them a good price 

For and if you do not, I know very well 

You'll be in great danger of going to Hell 

relates to a strike in Lancaster in 1844. Collected by A. L. 

Lloyd. See also parody SPERRAND. 

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