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The Whitwick Pit Disaster

from Hare on the Heath by Fay Brotherhood

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It is of whitwick pit I shall now ye tell,
All of a night down in shaft number five,
Oh in the spring of eighteen ninety eight
All over Charley forest, skylarks lament.

All for the fathers lost all on that day,
All for the sons buried ‘neath the slag,
All for the women weeping by the pit head,
Today their cries are masked by trolley wheels
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The deputy thought nothing of a small heat,
All on his rounds down in the main intake road.
But later on the deputy Joseph Limb,
He found a sight to make a brave man buckle

The gob fire rages, and the ceiling caves,
smoke curling like a swallow – over the lake
The gallant Charlie clamp came back through the fire,
All for to lead his comrades back to the sky

One lad his father he must leave to die,
Find the return airway
Find the return airway

Follow me from the coalface,
Follow me from the fire
Hold your breath in your caps lad,
Choking through the coal smog.

The way is forward but,
They fall one by one,
Only seven greet day light,
Thirty five still lie,
‘Neath Hugglescote grange
Entombed

9 bodies were found by the rescue team
Banded together, a circle bound.
As brothers they sat praying for the light,
As brothers bound the lights died one by one.

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from Hare on the Heath, released October 13, 2010

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Fay Brotherhood Welwyn Garden City, UK

Pagan folk songs of myth, magic and mother nature from the lead singer of Spriggan Mist.

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