The Bonny Pit Laddie

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  The Hewer

  Tommy Gilfellon with Alastair Anderson, Colin Ross & Johnny Handle
  2:51
• 2
  Doon the Wagon Way

  Johnny Handle
  1:07
• 3
  A Miner’s Life

  Tommy Gilfellon
  3:44
• 4
  I Wish Pay Friday Wad Come

  Tommy Gilfellon with Johnny Handle & Colin Ross
  3:23
• 5
  The Auchengeich Disaster

  Dick Gaughan with Alastair Anderson
  2:10
• 6
  The Collier’s Rant

  Johnny Handle with Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
  2:25
• 7
  Farewell to the Monty

  Johnny Handle with Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
  1:59
• 8
  The Putter

  Johnny Handle with Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
  2:55
• 9
  Little Chance

  Tommy Gilfellon with Johnny Handle & Alastair Anderson
  3:02
• 10
  My Gaffer’s Bait

  Johnny Handle & Colin Ross
  2:22
• 11
  The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s Wife

  Tommy Gilfellon with Colin Ross, Johnny Handle & Alastair Anderson
  3:27
• 12
  The Blacking Miners

  Tommy Gilfellon
  1:19
• 13
  The Miner’s Lockout

  Harry Boardman with Johnny Handle, Colin Ross, Alastair Anderson & Tommy Gilfellon
  3:06
• 14
  The South Medomsley Strike

  Tommy Gilfellon, Johnny Handle, Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
  3:36
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  The Durham Lockout

  Tommy Gilfellon with Colin Ross & Alastair Anderson
  6:23
• 2
  Aa’m Glad the Strike’s Done

  Johnny Handle, Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
  3:06
• 3
  The Collier’s Pay Week / Cut and Dry Dolly / Success to the Coal Trade / My Lad is o’er Bonny for the Coal Trade

  Tommy Gilfellon, Colin Ross & Alastair Anderson
  5:53
• 4
  I’ll Have A Collier

  Harry Boardman
  2:00
• 5
  I'll make her fain to follow me / The Joyful days are coming / Get her Bo

  Dick Gaughan, Johnny Handle & Tommy Gilfellon
  4:00
• 6
  The Stoneman’s Song

  Johnny Handle
  1:26
• 7
  The Hartley Calamity

  Tommy Gilfellon
  4:41
• 8
  Bonnie Woodha

  Dick Gaughan
  3:27
• 9
  The Banks of the Dee

  Johnny Handle & Colin Ross
  4:57
• 10
  The Bonnie Pit Laddie

  Colin Ross & Alastair Anderson
  4:15
• 11
  The Bonnie Pit Laddie

  Johnny Handle with Colin Ross, Alastair Anderson & Tommy Gilfellon
  1:52

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Release credits

• Alastair Anderson
  background vocals [1, 9, 11], concertina [2.1-3, 2.10-11, 1.1, 1.5-8, 1.13-14]
• Alistair Anderson
  concertina [5]
• Colin Ross
  Northumbrian pipes [1, 3, 10], fiddle [2.2-3, 2.5, 1.1, 1.13-14], mouth harp [6], mouth organ [1.10, 2.11], whistle [2.9, 1.4, 1.7-8, 1.11]
• Dick Gaughan
  vocal [1.5, 2.8]
• Harry Boardman
  concertina [4], vocal [2.4, 1.13]
• Johnny Handle
  accordion [1.13-14, 2.2], background vocals [1, 9, 11, 13], diatonic button accordion [1, 4], guitar [1.2, 1.10, 2.5-6, 2.9], vocal [1.2, 1.6-8, 1.10, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11]
• Tommy Gilfellon
  accordion [5], background vocals [13], guitar [1.14, 2.11], vocal [2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.9, 1.11-12, 1.14]
• Tony Engle
  recording

Issues

• T
  (Combined release view)
• T
  The Bonny Pit Laddie

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1975
• 

  T
  The Bonnie Pit Laddie

  CD
  1997