Lament - Hull Song

This song was written by Linda Kelly and the recording is by Hissyfit from the CD, Sweet Minerva.
Linda says, ‘It was written to highlight the very complex nature of life on Hessle Road in the 1940s and 1950s, which her husband experienced as a small child.
On the one hand it was a tight-knit community of fishermen and dockworkers with families experiencing good times and bad, brought together by tragedy and torn apart by social deprivation on a scale we can’t imagine nowadays. A true spirit emerged, a resilience that Hull can truly be proud of. But looking closer another picture also emerges, of workhouse and poverty, of women prepared to do almost anything to feed their children. This was the Hessle Road my husband remembers.’
Taken from the Yorkshire Garland Group
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