Dvd - The Song Will Remain Lyrics - Live At A Distance - Steeleye Span

It's in the evening after dark 

When the blackleg miner creeps to work, 

With 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. 

And even down near the Seghill mine, 

Across the way they stretch a line 

To catch the throat, to break the spine 

Of the dirty blackleg miner. 

They grabbed his duds, his picks as well, 

And they hoy them down the pit of hell, 

Down you go, we pay you well, 

You dirty blackleg miner. 

It's in the evening after dark 

That the blackleg miner creeps to work, 

With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt, 

There goes the blackleg miner. 

So join the union while you may, 

Don't wait 'til your dying day 

For that may not be far away, 

You dirty blackleg miner.