Charles Parker Discography The Big Hewer

The Big Hewer

Featuring

Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger

Release date 1967

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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