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field music and the nasuwt riverside band - after hepburn's union lyrics

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i tried
god knows i did
and more proud men than me
we did our best
with best intent
to make us heard at least

i’d felt the pitiful state
in which we had been kept
with bodies and minds both enchained
made blindly to accept

but then on the black fell
and the town moor
a multitude with one voice
they’d come from bedlington
and wheatley hill
a union at last

we saw the strength that we had
but so did those on high
rather than recognise our pleas
thеy forced us out on strike

first we had to dispеl
the false taint on our trade
an image of savage and godless men
we countered with restraint
but such had the men endured
and had been doing so
since tender years in the black
my entreaties to hold firm
were not enough
the union cracked

and my name became a plague
on those who had held most firm
cast out from work in every place
until i vowed never more
to gather men and make demands
and never say the word again

our strength
forged from the rock
and our patience too
we know how to wait
and undeterred
waiting’s what we’ll do

the golden chain will be snapped
and the owners then
will sigh to themselves
for days gone by
as ordinary men

- field music and the nasuwt riverside band lyrics

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