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Hartley Pit Catastrophe

from Loveless Town by Paul Handyside

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I’ve dug this mine for four years now to this job I was born / Until disaster came our ways, one cold January morn / A forty odd ton iron beam came crashing down the shaft / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, our only exit dashed // Two older brothers work with me, the same shift if we can / To my mother I am still a child to my father I’m a man / But on that night he cradled me as if I was a bairn / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, is how we’d meet our end // Sweet Mary is my chosen one, she means the world to me / One day I shall marry her and old age we both shall see / But when she hears upon the fact and what may come to pass / At the Hartley Pit catastrophe, well I‘m sorry my bonnie lass // At sixty fathoms down below in darkness and in vain / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, with nowt but horses’ grain // With the tide a coming in and poison in our chest / And if they fail to reach us, well I know they did their best // For three long days our rescuers were beaten back by fumes / At the Hartley Pit catastrophe, our grave to be exhumed // With every effort that was made with sinew, flesh and bone / Has failed to lift this coffin lid, well we did not die alone / And when they dragged us out of here into the crisp, clean air / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, they choked on grim despair / But if you think kindly on us now, two hundred souls and four / Please allow no pit catastrophe, befall us anymore

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from Loveless Town, released May 21, 2021
Written by Paul Handyside

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Paul Handyside Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Paul Handyside is a folk and roots singer songwriter, formerly of eighties indie darlings Hurrah! whose songs now fuse pop with folk-tinged americana. The fourth album "Loveless Town" was released in 2021.

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