(The day we went to Bangor)

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Didn’t we have a lovely time

The day we went down a coalmine

All over the place

And on the coal face

And all in under five hours you know

And when we got back

With faces all black

After riding on a man rider

We giggled and laughed

As we rode up the shaft

As the wheels went round

 

Can you recall the thrill of it all

As we scrambled along the coal face

Never thought I’d be found

Deep under the ground

Down by almost a mile you know

We moved in a haste

From a fall in the waste

Amid everywhere noisy and dusty

We saw a coal cutter

Into coal as if butter

As It’s wheel went round

 

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Didn’t we have a lovely time

The day we went down a coalmine

All over the place

And on the coal face

And all in under five hours you know

And when we got back

With faces all black

After riding on a man rider

We giggled and laughed

As we rode up the shaft

As the wheels went round

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I’m now old and grey, but remember that day

We went to visit a coalmine

The pits breathed their last

Now it’s all in the past

And all in under a decade you know

Now thanks to the Tories

Mining’s just stories

For telling the children in their history

It felt so unkind

On that very last wind

As the wheels went round.

 

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Didn’t we have a lovely time

The day we went down a coalmine

All over the place

And on the coal face

And all in under five hours you know

And when we got back

With faces all black

After riding on a man rider

We giggled and laughed

As we rode up the shaft

As the wheels went round