{"id":1163,"date":"2023-12-20T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:28:42","slug":"fields-of-coal-written-by-mervyn-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Fields of Coal written by Mervyn Craig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fields of Coal
You can sit and wonder all you like
To what\u2019s beyond that Pont-top-pike
Men walk ower the coal to reap
From that aaful place called stoney heap
Leadgate lads both young and auld
All brave the rain and winter cauld
To gan doon the mine and work the coal
They say it\u2019s better than the dole
Their dust filled lungs it\u2019s hard to breathe
They curse and gripe their angers seethe
Their hearts bursting with fits of rage
No man refuses to ride the cage
For he has a family, Wife and bairn
The pit yakka\u2019s lament he\u2019ll hev to learn
Heed doon arse up and fill that tub
Eight hours of graft afore the club
A nice cauld pint afore ya tea
To wesh away that misery
One turns to two, three and four
Happiness resumed in the heed once more
So if you wonder what\u2019s ower the hill
Remember this, it\u2019s a bitter pill
Divvent gan there lads it\u2019ll drag yee doon
Yee\u2019re better off with a job in the toon
Deep mining\u2019s days are over and done
The cages stopped and divvent run
Newcastle coal fields mighty and vast
Are being ravaged by the open cast
Stop open cast mining It\u2019s fraught with greed
So stop this now I beg and plead
This practice is bad what I don\u2019t like
You\u2019re ruining my views from Pont-Top-Pik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fields of CoalYou can sit and wonder all you likeTo what\u2019s beyond that Pont-top-pikeMen walk ower the coal to reapFrom that aaful place called stoney heapLeadgate lads both young and auldAll brave the rain and winter cauldTo gan doon the mine and work the coalThey say it\u2019s better than the doleTheir dust filled lungs it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoriesofleadgate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}