The Blackleg Miner Lyrics - Singles - Steeleye Span

Oh, it's in the evening after dark 

When the blackleg miner creeps to work 

His moleskin pants and dirty shirt 

There goes the blackleg miner 

Well, he grabs his duds and down he goes 

To hew the coal that lies below 

There's not a woman in this town row 

Will look at the blackleg miner 

Oh, Delaval is a terrible place 

They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face 

And around the heaps they run a footrace 

To catch the blackleg miner 

So divvent gan near the Seghill mine 

Across the way they stretch a line 

To catch the throat, break the spine 

On the dirty blackleg miner 

So he grabbed his duds, his picks as well 

And they hoy them down the pit of hell 

Down you go and paid you well 

You dirty blackleg miner 

So join the union while you may 

Don't wait till your dying day 

For that may not be far away 

You dirty blackleg miner