Anne Lamb at The Bridge Folk Club - The Graveyard Shift (Les Pearson)

Anne Lamb at The Bridge Folk Club, 20 May 2024
The Graveyard Shift (Les Pearson)
Les Pearson worked at the Rising Sun Colliery in Wallsend, England, not far from the Bridge Folk Club. He wrote this in 1972 and it won that year’s Newcastle songwriting competition. The tune is ‘Rosin the Beau’
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* The foreshift (the graveyard shift) in the pit started at midnight
* ‘Me bait and me bottle’ was ‘My food and my drink’
* Marras are friends or workmates
* The club was where most miners drank their beer