Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Cassie and Maggie
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ewan MacColl
Songwriter
Songtexte
Out of the dirt and the darkness I was born, go down!
Out of the hard, black coal-face I was torn, go down!
Kicked on the world and the earth split open
Crawled through a crack where the rock was broken
Burrowed a hole away in the coal, go down!
In a cradle of coal in the darkness I was laid, go down!
Down in the dirt and the darkness, I was raised, go down!
Cut my teeth on a five-foot timber
Held up the roof with my little finger
Started me time away in the mine, go down!
On the day that I was born, I was six foot tall, go down!
The very next day I learned the way to haul, go down!
The third day worked at board-and-pillar
Worked on the fourth as a long-wall filler
Getting me steam up, hewing the seam, go down!
I'm the son of, a son of, a son of a collier's son, go down!
Coal dust flows in the veins where the blood should run, go down!
Five steel ribs and an iron backbone
Teeth that can bite through rock and black stone
Working me time away in the mine, go down!
I've scrabbled and picked at the face where the roof was low, go down!
Crawled in seams where only a mole could go, go down!
In the thin-cut seams, I've ripped and redded
Even the rats are born bowlegged
Winning the coal, away in the hole, go down!
Out of the dirt and the darkness I was born, go down!
Out of the hard, black coal-face I was torn, go down!
Kicked on the world and the earth split open
Crawled through a crack where the rock was broken
Burrowed a hole away in the coal
Oh, burrowed a hole away in the coal
Oh, burrowed a hole away in the coal, go down!
Written by: Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
