The Factory Lad (Turning Steel)

A song written by Colin Dryden. This is very poor quality, a higher quality version will be along soon.

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Music

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• Colin
• Dryden
• Turning
• Steel
• Factory
• Lad

[theshopsteward]

one of my favs. interesting cover. is it in 2/2 time?

[rshampshire]

Heh, that implies I actually know something about music. It could be 2/2 time I guess, in reality though the lyrics remind me of the steel mills of Yorkshire and back to back housing that the workers lived in. I see dispare and resignation in that working in a steel mill is the only job choice the lad has. My grandparents lived in a once proud steel mill area and the this song coupled with the loss of those mills just made me really angry for some reason so I wanted to try and get that anger in.

[PalmyBruce]

This is 'real folk music'. Good on you. I sing this song often too, partly in memory of working in gloomy fluorescent-lit mechanical telephone exchanges. There there were turning electric motor driven shafts & gears driving the hundreds of mechanical switches - a loud hiss and endless rumble 24/7, during all the shift work we did. The noise partly deafened me. The often dreadful drudgery of routine maintenance work deeply depressed me & workmates. Bruce Thomson, 61, in New Zealand.

[Davtitford]

You're improving :-)

[ThompaFTM]

So that's what you've been doing hiding away in The North all of this time?!?

Does this choice of song mean you're losing those Tory values at last?? ;o)