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Lyrics for Four Pence A Day by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Four Pence A Day | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 137 | | | | Lyrics: | FOUR PENCE A DAY
The ore is waiting in the tubs the snow's upon the fell
Canny folk
are sleeping yet but lead is reet to sell
Come me little washer lad come let's awa
We're
bound down to slavery for four pence a day
It's early in the morning we rise at five
o'clock
And the little slaves come to the door to knock, knock, knock
Come me little
washer lad, come let's awa
It's very hard to work for four pence a day
My father was
a miner and lived down in the town
Twas hard work and poverty that always kept him down
He
aimed for me to go to school, but brass he could not pay
So i had to go to the washing rake for
four pence a day
My mother rises out of bed with tears on her cheeks
Puts my wallet
on my shoulders, which has to serve a week
It often fills her great big heart when she unto me
does say
I never thought you would have worked for four pence a day
Fourpence a
day, me lads, and very hard to work
And never a pleasant look from a gruffy looking
Turk
His conscience it may fall and his heart it may give way
Then he'll raise our wages
to nine pence a day
see also FOURPND
@work @mine
sung by MacColl on
Steamwhistle Ballads
filename[ FOURPENC
play.exe FOURPND
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