Come All You Colliers

Come all you colliers in this place and listen to my song

We'll show the viewers that they have done us poor miners wrong They have oppressed is very sore and that we truly know

They've tied a knot they cannot loose and struck the fatal blow

The monthly bonds they've offered us have forced us now to strike

Six weeks now idle we have been, which owners do not like

And if we go to work again, we vow to have our rights

The six hundred weight tub it will remain, no more sevens or 'ights

Come all you colliers

Our price they lowered from time to time, which to our grief we know

We'll never forget their bounteous deeds wherever we may go

They're beat this time, they all confess, our union spread so far

Against us they combined for long, now sir's we are on par

The blackleg men have proved untrue and sought for rest and ease

They've undermined their fellow men, their masters for to please

They hope for favours after this and how they hue away

But the time is coming fast my lads when they will rue the day

Come all you colliers