Song Lyrics Unknown - Dalesmans Litany    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Dalesmans Litany Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Dalesmans Litany Theme ID: 3774 Album: N/A DALESMAN'S LITANY It's hard when folks can't find their work where they've been bred and born When I was young I always thought I'd bide among fruits and corn But I've been forced to work in towns so here's my litany From Hull and Halifax and Hell Good Lord deliver me When I was courting Mary Jane The old Squire he said one day I've no room here for wedded folks Choose whether to wed or stay Well I couldn't give up the lass that I loved So to town we had to flee From Hull and Halifax and Hell Good Lord deliver me I've worked in Leeds and Huddersfield and addled honest brass At Bradford, Keighley, Rotherham I've kept m'bairns and m'lass I've travelled all three Ridings round And once I went to sea From forges, mills and sailing ships Good Lord deliver me I've walked at night thru Sheffield lanes T'was the same as being in Hell Where furnaces thrust out tongues of fire and roared like the wind on the fell And I've shovelled coals in the Barnsley pits with muck up to m'knee From Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotterham Good Lord deliver me I've seen fog creeping across Leeds brig as thick as Bastille soup I've lived where folks were stowed away like rabbits in a coop And I've seen snow float down Bradford Beck as black as ebony From Hunslet, Holbeck, Wibsley Slack Good lord deliver me Well now our children are all fled to the country we've come back There's forty miles of heathery moor 'twixt us and the coal pits slack And as I sit by the fire at night I laugh and shout with glee From Hull and Halifax and Hell Good Lord deliver me. recorded by Hart and Prior on Olde England and Frankie Armstrong on Here's a Health @work @mine filename[ DALESLIT play.exe DALESLIT SF ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Dark British Foes, Dark Island, Dark Night Round, Darlin, Darling Corey, Darling Nelly Gray, Darwinian Theory, Das Lied Der Deutschen, Davy Crockett, Davy Faa, Davy Lowston, Day Is Done, Day We Went To Rothesay O, Days Of Forty Nine, Dday Dodgers, Deacons Daughter, Dead Dog Scrumpy, Dead Horse, Deaf Womans Courtship, Dear Companion, Dear Elizabeth, Death And The Lady, Death Come Easy, Death Of Queen Jane, Debutante Ball, Deck The Halls, Deck Us All, Deep Blue Sea, Deep River, Deep River Blues, Degrassi High Theme, Degrassi Junior High Theme, Delaware River, Delias Gone, Demi Said To Me, Demon Lover, Denmark Anthem Text, Denmark Native Anthem Text, Der Steirische Brauch, Derby Ram, Derby Town, Deserter, Desolation, Desperado, Destroyer Song, Det aer Inte Laett Att Vara oedmjuk, Deutschland ?ber Alles, Devil And Feathery Wife, Devil And The Farmers Wife, Devilish Mary, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy