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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 11/6/2005 1:13:58 PM by Azzabuv

Shipley Colliery
replied on: 11/6/2005 12:55:48 PM

The Paddy Mail
Sat in the roadway, two miles from the shaft

This group of Miners just talked and laughed

Each of them listening to another mate's tale

Patiently waiting for the paddy mail.

Our shift is over, aren't we glad

Said one old chap as off he took the other kneepad

Chuckling as a young lad made another crack

Forgetting that terrible aching back.

Six days we work in this dirty hole

Sometimes i think i'm just like a mole

Maybe i am but don't tell a soul

For this is better than being on the dole.

This skin off mine is wet through with sweat

Yet this is something i don't regret

For i have earned a full week's pay

That will keep the bailiffs at bay.

Here it comes, that paddy mail

What would i give for a pint of ale?

Back to the pit bottom without a stop

Then up to that lovely sunshine on top.

Up to the sunshine in that big metal cage

Pleased to have earned another weeks wage

Turning to his mate and saying; come on owd flower

Let's hurry up and get a shower.

Thanks to Arthur Fox, via 'Update'.
Azzabuv.

In Memory of JOHNTO - by Azzabuv.

The combined weight of wood, rock and iron, was the clock-off call for 'The Man'.
One was a bore, two was a laugh, but three it had to be - for Johnto.

R.I.P. JOHNTO - 06/11/1969.
Azzabuv.

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