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Joe Solo & The Hatfield Brigade - Rise Up!

from The Past Won't Last Forever EP by Joe Solo

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lyrics

My Grandfather told me:
"They'll always need coal, son.
There's billions of tons
Stretching under the sea.
It's not just a job,
It's a whole way of life, son.
You were born for that pit
Like your father and me."

He'd come from the Auld Country
Like so many men here
And he'd sank that pit
With his blood, sweat and tears.
And though it bent his back
And he knackered his lungs there
He worked at the coal face
For forty-odd years.

Chorus:
So Rise Up, Rise Up
Mining brothers and sisters
Though they shut the pit
And the old Welfare Hall
And then raided our pensions
We raise up the banner
If they think that we're beat
They don't know us at all.

For twenty-odd years
Coal put food on the table
A roof over our heads
And shoes on our feet.
The lads had my back
And I had theirs the same, son.
And that's how you lose
Without knowing defeat.

Chorus.

When I look to the pit head
The big wheel's stopped turning
I think of that coal
Stretching under the sea.
And I think of me Grandad
His Irish eyes smiling
And I know that it stands there
In his memory.

Chorus

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from The Past Won't Last Forever EP, released November 26, 2018
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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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