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Twenty-one years of age full of youth and good looking. To work down the mines of high Blantyre he came. The wedding was fixed all the guests were invited. That calm summer's evening my Johnny was slain. The explosion was heard all the women and children. With pale anxious faces made haste to the mine.
9. Aug. 1999 · The explosion, one of the biggest disasters in the history of the mines, occurred at High Blantyre on October 22, 1877. (Norman Buchan, Weekly Scotsman, Nov 20) [1967:] In character and in function, the texts were changing fast. Ballads of this kind [...] represent a middling stage.
26. Apr. 2019 · Some details on the 1877 Blantyre Disaster:http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/55.htmlhttp://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/Blantyre/Blantyre-1.htmlhttps://bla...
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- Daniel Kelly Folk Music
That Blantyre explosion they'll never forget And all you young miners who hear my sad story Shed a tear for the victims who were laid to their rest . Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com . Album The Luke Kelly Album With The Dubliners The Dubliners. 1. T ...
3. März 2024 · Brian Osborne sang The Blantyre Explosion in 1976 on his Traditional Sound album Ae Fond Kiss . He noted: A terrible underground explosion took place at Dixons Pit, at High Blantyre, in 1877. The ballad states that 310 men were killed. This may have been exaggerated over the ensuing 99 years but the grief and tragedy experienced by their loved ...
13. Nov. 2006 · Video
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The Blantyre Explosion. This is a tragic song of a young man killed in the coal pit and a young girl left lamenting. It is a song about the Blantyre mining disaster, which happened on the morning of 22 October 1877. Blantyre Colliery, William Dixon's pit, numbers 1 and 2 were both blasted, killing 207 miners of which the youngest victim was a ...
