The Big Hewer

Tracklist

• 1
  When you hew a lump of coal
  1:21
• 2
  Out of the dirt and darkness I was born
  3:46
• 3
  Schoolday's over; come on then, John
  2:32
• 4
  Now don't be late
  2:17
• 5
  You're at the pit bank
  2:39
• 6
  Oh dear, the experience to go down the pit
  5:55
• 7
  When I am down the pit
  1:54
• 8
  So now you know how coal is got
  3:25
• 9
  Jimmy, come back, come back
  2:24
• 10
  Yes... he was working next to me
  4:05
• 11
  And yet it's good to come from the pit
  1:33
• 12
  Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand
  2:47
• 13
  Down in the dark
  2:44
• 14
  In Durham and Northumberland, I'm sorry for to say
  2:40
• 15
  A miner has to possess that sense of humour
  3:20
• 16
  Coal is a thing that's cost life to get
  5:39
• 17
  Today, safety is the prime factor
  4:54
• 18
  Deep down in a man's heart
  4:18

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Issues

• T
  The Big Hewer

  Unknown format
  1967
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  T
  The Big Hewer

  CD
  1999