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It's in the evening after dark
When the blackleg miners creep to work,
With their moleskin trousers and dirty shirts
There go the blackleg miners!

They take their picks and down they go
To hew the coal that lies below,
And there isn't a woman in this town-row
Will look at a blackleg miner.

Oh, Delaval is a terrible place.
They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face,
And around the pit heaps they run a foot race,
With the dirty blackleg miners!

So, divvint gaan to the Seghill mine.
Where across the way they stretch a line
To catch the throat and break the spine
Of the dirty blackleg miners.

They'll take your tools and duds as well,
And throw them down to the pit of hell.
It's “Down ye go, and fare ye well,
You dirty blackleg miners!”

So join the union while you may.
Don't wait till your dying day.
For that may not be far away,
You dirty blackleg miners!


Delaval:

Seaton Delaval, a mining village in Northumberland
Seghill:

Seghill is another pit village in the Seaton Valley near Delaval.

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