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Title: Guitar: Coal-Hole Cavalry View count: 117 Rating: 5.0 (3 ratings) Description: A request from another friend, Don Palladino came to me yesterday. As he pointed out, there is only one version of this song on youtube to date, and that is an excellent one. Finding the lyrics was even more difficult, but thanks to someone called Rich-Joy, I got them and the following information about the song. The author, Ted Edwards, who was brought up in the coal mining community of Wigan, used to lie in bed as a small child and listen to all these early morning sounds around him, as the local community of miners prepared for and set off for work in the mine. He would then imagine the miners in their clogs as a cavalry charge, off to remove the Indians who'd taken over the mine during the night!!! An interesting social note: they did not have alarm clocks in those days, so the mine employed a man to go round shortly before the shift was due to start to knock on bedroom windows using a long pole to wake up any miners who might have overslept. His were the first clogs to be heard in the morning, shortly to be followed by an increasing number as the miners left home for the mine. Tags: coal-hole, cavalry, threelegsoman, wigan, mining, community, english, folk, song, lyrics, chords, acoustic, guitar, finger-picking, style, Author: threelegsoman |
