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BONUS TRACK: The Picketing Gnome of Hatfield Main

from Never Be Defeated by Joe Solo

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The true story of a garden gnome stolen from a working miner's garden and adopted by the pickets at Hatfield Main. Ransom notes were sent, and postcards from various holiday destinations as the years passed.....

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I stood above a working miner's door, and oh the shame!
I was stolen in the dead of night but could not name
The culprits. It were dark and so I can't be sure
But it sounded just like Brian Daines and Leslie Moore

Chorus:
Na na na na naa na
You can't catch me
Na na na na naa na
There's no law you see
Na na na na naa na
Making it a crime
For a gnome to stop a scab
Crossing a picket line

You might have seen me on the telly
I were quite the star
Might have seen me down the Pit Club
Sat up on the bar
Might have seen me going hungry
When the strike took hold
But you'd never see me bussing in
To mine their coal

Na na na na naa na
You can't catch me
Na na na na naa na
There's no law you see
Na na na na naa na
Making it a crime
For a gnome to stop a scab
Crossing a picket line

I'm the Picketing Gnome of Hatfield Main
I were with the lads and lasses down the old Pit Lane
I sent a postcard home from everywhere I stepped off a plane
I'm the Picketing Gnome of Hatfield Main

I'd rather have a pint than I would a short
And I'd rather be broke than I would be bought
I'd rather soar like an eagle than crawl like a crab
And I'd rather be a picket than a low down scab

Na na na na naa na
You can't catch me
Na na na na naa na
There's no law you see
Na na na na naa na
Making it a crime
For a gnome to stop a scab
Crossing a picket line

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from Never Be Defeated, released October 6, 2015
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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