Seth Lakeman - The Colliers (audio)

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Uploaded by on Oct 15, 2008

fifth song from the album 'Freedom Fields'

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  • Can anyone tell me what it's about?

  • @Karateworm its the story of the gresford disaster of september 22 1934. if you search wikipedia for 'Gresford Disaster' then the full story should be there. before reading you should understand that the song was written using an amount of artistic licence so certain things in the song will be different from the real story.

  • @dogstar75 Ah, thanks for telling me. Much appreciated.

    What doe the line "Hold your fire?" mean do you think?

  • @Karateworm from what i glean from the song, the colliery manager had been advised to not blast a new seam as there was a build up of natural gas, basically he was asked to 'hold fire' or 'hold your fire'

  • lol we had 2 study this in english + now i cant get it outta my hed

  • ive got 3 albums worth of stuff by Seth on my channel, as well as other folky stuff.

    have a look, see what you think.

    a lot of people dismiss folk as being old fashioned and a bit crap but a lot of it is about murder and horrible accidents or going off to war or something supernatural.

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  • @easybabe4 We are doing the ballad of it, not this exact song but oh well

  • This song has helped my homework a lot, he he he. I can smell those good grades. I have done a newspaper, we had to, do you think it was a good Idea?

  • @maisiemouse007 sorry for some weird reaon that came up twice

  • @Ditzylemons so did we! i cant either it is amazing. lol

  • @Ditzylemons so did we! i cant either it is amazing. lol

  • Without a doubt the finest track on freedom fields. God i love these people.

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