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A breakerâs life is solid, âtil the fire burns away
Every day is dangerâs way of sharpening up the blade
Old tunnels play those tricks on you
Heed no hopeless tale
Keep your hand upon the hammer
And your eye upon the scale
With all this trouble ended now
These men will have their rights
After many years of bondage
Digging days and digging nights
This honest weight of labour
Bold breakers never fail
Keep your hand upon the hammer
And your eye upon the scale
Chorus:
More than money can weigh you down
More than money can dig new ground
Let no union man be weakened
By the papersâ false reports
You canât read or write when you work all night
And you fight for freedomâs cause
Raise the rhythm, drive the drill in
Ride that rusty nail
Keep your hand upon the hammer
And your eye upon the scale
Chorus:
Youâve been docked and flogged and shocked my boys
Youâve been loading two-to-one
Spilling carts and falling sparks
Theyâre slicing up your lungs
Overalls and cans for rockers
In shanties sleep on rails
Keep your hand upon the hammer
And your eye upon the scale
Chorus:
Bear a lonely witness to these images of time
Meat and muscle, trade and hustle
Reap those dirty rhymes
No quick return as daylight burns
These tears of sweat prevail
Keep your hand upon the hammer
And your eye upon the scale
Chorus
- Album:
- Ballads Of The Broken Few
- Word of Mouth
- Tales from the Barrel House
- Miscellaneous
- Hearts And Minds
- Hearts & Minds
- Word of Mouth (Deluxe Version)
- Midsomer Murders (Original Television Soundtrack)
- Inspector Barnaby (Original Television Soundtrack)
- TFF Rudolstadt 2011
- Tiny World
- Freedom Fields
- Solomon Browne
- iTunes Festival: London 2008
- Introducing... Seth Lakeman, Vol. 1
- Winter Collection 3
- The White Hare (Live)
- The White Hare
- Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling)
- Mercury Music Prize Compilation 2005