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Pound a Week Rise

from Thylacine by Austral

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about

A song by Ed Pickford, written about a miners union strike in Scotland. Thy lyrics were adapted by Angus Barbary to relate the plight of mine workers to the #StopAdani environmentalist movement in Australia in 2020. The instrumental tune was written Connor Hoy, Caity Brennan and Angus while workshopping the song at Echidna Studio.

lyrics

Come all of you colliers who work down the mines
From Scotland to New South Wales, the Murray to the Tyne
I'll tell you all a story of a pound a week rise
And the men who were fooled by the governments lies

Chorus:
Down you go down below, jack
Never see the skies
Working in a dungeon
For a pound a week rise

It's two-thousand and twenty, there's no more time to go
The mine working leaders to Adani will go
They'll say we work very hard, every day we risk our lives
We are asking here and now for a pound a week rise

Up spoke Adani and this he did decree
When that output rises, with you I will agree
I'll raise up all your wages, I'll give you all fair pay
I was once a miner and I worked hard in my day

So the miners all went home, they worked hard and well
Their lungs filled with coal dust from the bosom of that hell
The output rose by fifteen, eighteen percent and more
When two years had passed and gone it rose about a score

So the miners went to India to claim their hard earned prise
They asked of Adani for the promised rise
But Adani wouldn't give a single pound, he wouldn't give ten bob
He gave them six and seven and said now get back to your job

So come all of you colliers, take heed to what I say
And don't believe Adani when he says he'll give fair pay
He'll tell you to work hard and make the output rise
But pigs might fly before you see that pound a week rise

credits

from Thylacine, released April 1, 2022
Angus Barbary - vocals, octave mandolin, bodhrán
Rhys Crimmin - guitar, percussion, backing vocals
Connor Hoy - flute
Caity Brennan - fiddle, backing vocals

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Austral is a lively four-piece Australian Celtic band combining cracking uilleann pipe tunes, fiery fiddles, earthy didgeridoo sounds and energetic foot percussion.

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