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Up The Mizzen Down The Mine

from Trappy Lad by Tony Morris

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Some ironstone miners in North Yorkshire were also seamen and spent their summers at sea and worked in the mines in the winter.

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UPTHE MIZZEN - DOWN THE MINE
CHORUS
It’s up the mizzen, down the mine.
This way of life, it suits me fine.
Well, you grub your money where you can,
This is the lot of the working man,
We‘re a different kind of ‘gentry’.

In Summer we miners sail the seas,
Up aloft as we leave the Tees.
The cargoes heavy we‘ve won from the mine.
As she comes about you can hear the ship moan,
On course for the furnaces up the Tyne
Where they’ll blow the iron right out of the stone.
CHORUS
Even in Summer the North Seas wild.
From the lee shore you can hear the waves.
There are sudden squalls to unfather the child.
Many’s the cargoe of stone deep below
And in Winter, however brave,
Prayers will never save you.
CHORUS
So, in Winter, it’s down we go,
Down the mine we sail below
Hewing the rock for brown gold
That in the Summer fills the hold.
CHORUS
But still there’s danger in the dark.
The wagons will crush you if you lark.
The blast will leave you naked, aflame.
The rock will snuff you out.
Still, it’s watch the way the wind blows.
Keeping watch is still the game.
CHORUS

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from Trappy Lad, released October 29, 2014

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Tony Morris Whitby, UK

TONY MORRIS is an Own Brand Performer and Entertainer who performs his own songs and music.".
Currently running Covideo Folk Club Facebook Group.
About 200 rough and ready warts and all videos on his Facebook Profile Site, Be amazed. ... more

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