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James...a long time ago we met. Connect.

Absolutely brilliant guitar playing by RT. Loved the drumming too.

I was a Printer in Uk until 1980 escaping to Australia. But I fled from Thatcher to end up Working for Murdoch.😂 I remember Weeks on Picket lines, Strike Pay but foremost 'Never be a Blackleg ..!' So this song hits home, I wasn't covered in Coal dust and in fear of Underground Death. Instead, I Stunk of Solvent and would Struggle to wash ink from fingernails and Hair..! And left the Industy minus a finger..! Like a Few in my trade, working on machines bigger than Buses, things got rather Heavy and Dangerous too..! Join a Union Guys, they can be a Pain, until you really need them. Yes I Vote Labor to Stop my Dad Spinning in his Grave..! Cheers to All, Brother's and Sister's. 🛠

Love to know if you know Delaval and Seghill is?? I'm from there. My Great Grandad derailed the Flying Scotsman in 1926. Went to prison for 7 years....proper commy. Be careful what you sing with no knowledge.

Bluehorses did a great version of this.

Man, I've loved his version of this song for almost 30 years. It's a beautiful lyric, and Martin puts it across so well.

Brilliant ,thank you

Black legs were generally middle class students that took the job of policing the trains and taking the job of those that were striking. It's a song from Northumberland with a vast amount of coal fields at the time, all but gone know....just know what you are singing about.

My Great Grandad went to prison in 1926....he derailed the Flying Scotsman. Please know what you are talking about.

If I was at this concert, I wouldn’t have been happy with your party political broadcast opening. Keep to singing and playing please Martin.

I've heard this before, but this is a brilliant song sounds great 👍, Form an ex South Wales Coal Miner,

O my! Don't remember ever wearing such a fine hat!

Very good rendition of the song.

A song from my youth

Sir Richard Thompson, an irreplaceable natural resource that is self-sustaining.

Great version from RT. Love the drum...

I am a Delaval boy born and raised. This is stuff i grew u listening to as old guy in the miners wellfare would sing tunes

I saw James, along with Tom McManamon playing as 'Storm' at the Mean Fiddler back in the early 1990's - oh boy, could those two PLAY! It was watching James on bodhrán that caused me to buy two of the things - still can't play properly, bit it's fun trying…

Never heard this before! Thanks for uploading! Brilliantly performed!

like this version, slowed down more than fear of drinking or steeleye span,the drummer adds a lot to this as well.

Is that dropped B tuning......EADGAE?

Any disharmony in such dangerous jobs as mining, construction etc. the workers HAVE to get along with each other. It is all too easy to "engineer" fatal accidents in such workplaces in former times.

Lovely. And what a good vibe!

wonderful..again...and i Don't know this song...probably the one song they didnt include in Punch...

I first heard this song performed by Mr Simpson, some 30 years ago, at the Black Swan, in York: it touched my heart, then and has stayed with me ever since. He introduced it as an Anne Lister song, of whom, sad to say, I had never heard. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I have found a few versions of this song, including one by the composer herself. It is a tribute to Martin Simpson that he fills this number with such drama and pathos, quite apart from his virtuoso guitar score for it, as quite frankly, the original is dull to the point of being flat. Of course, without her it wouldn't exist and I mean no disrespect but it highlights that not all great songs make it straight from the manuscript and require another person to inject the magic. Martin does another great rendition of one of Anne Lister's songs, 'Moth'; both lyrics and score, are wonderful in Mr Simpson's version.

Delaval and Seghill are not coalfields. Seghill was a mine between Ashington and Lynemouth. When I was working in the industry circa 1968 the mine had closed but the headgear was still standing. Delaval is about 1Km from Fenwich Colliery where I was acting Undermanager in 1972 before I moved to work in Nottinghamshire. I sometimes perform this song.

Thanks for alerting me to this video Rob!

Martin Is simply the Best! I am luck enough to have a PRS Martin Simpson however I do not make it sound like this....

The finest bodhran player ever.

Very cool....

Working men and Women of all lands unite.

Gah, he is just the best! Love RT!