Working Man (the miners song).
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A mining song sung from the heart and performed by Hank Taylor (an ex miner himself).
Filmed mainly on location at Pleasley colliery and the surrounding areas near to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.
Pleasley Pit was sunk in 1873 and produced coal until 1983.
Pleasley Colliery is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument and has been developed and maintained as a Mining Heritage site, Museum, Nature Reserve, Visitors Centre & Tourist Attraction.
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I worked underground in 5 different coal mines from 1975 to 1981 and will never forget it
God bless and protect all miners😀
My grandfather survived the first world war, came home to a wife and three children [ a fourth died while he was overseas] and when he got work, walked 15 miles to his nearest pit. It sickens me with all this work from home mularkey. some people have no concept of self worth, pride, or graft. His two brothers were also miners. Now they were real man. I salute those who aren't with us any longer and those who can still remember the camerarderie.
I was a working man,all my life I grafted,, we all of my age were brought up to understand if you don’t work and put in, how can you expect to take out? Now it seems the whole damn lot think that they have the right to take out when for many of them, they haven’t worked and don’t want to, I am now over 80 , just lost the love of my life, have broke back, broke hip broke heart and finally broken spirit.. and I no longer understand the strange world I live in.. I cant wait to join my love. Music is my only solace , and then from days long gone.
Couldn’t agree more on your comment on the work from home garbage 🗑️ the most snow flake pile of crap ever, was born in the 70s, and thank Christ i was instilled with a proper work ethic, when men were iron and boats were wooden, sadly due to the modern woke world we live in, all respect and manners are now nothing but history, very sad indeed, my great grandfather, swapped a shift on Christmas Day with a fellow miner, he died on that Christmas day in a Pitt fall ❤
What a driveling non-starter of a thought. What difference does it make if an office worker is remote or in a cubicle, either way you're staring into the same screen with the same neurotic geek of a boss breathing down your neck. Blue collar work that couldn't be done from home never stopped. How greasy to use an honest man's legacy to disparage other people who WORK for a living. Should we forgo all forms of work except for coal mining so your fragile masculinity can be consoled?
Well said
My dad almost died on my first birthday in a coal face collapse. I count myself lucky that he survived and I knew and loved him until he died not so long ago at the age of 89. Rest in peace with mum Dad
my father was a miner in derbyshire happy times but hard work thanks dad and all miners that risked their lives every day respect.
My father, grandfathers, uncles and cousins all worked underground in the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, U.S.A W e lost two uncle and a close neighbor in mine accidents. They were all proud of their mining heritage and I am proud to be a coal miner's daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin and friend. God bless all miners and their families!
Thatcher ripped the guts out of communities, shame on her! Beautiful song and singing. Bless.
That was after the implementation of the 'Lima Agreement' mate. Google it. It is quite a shocking document.
She destroyed the values that i grew up with - She wrecked my country. God bless the miners and the Wapping printers.
the only thing she got right was the Falklands she was a witch
People like is what makes our lives better. Thank you for the sacrifices.
Love this song my Father, Grandfathers, uncles were miners in the Pennsylvania hard coal region. My maternal Grandfather was killed in a cave in Shenandoah, Pa in 1939. My father was one of the rescuers who brought him out of the mine, My Father also died from black lung disease. He started working as a breaker boy at age 12 and became a full fledged miner at age 16. My paternal Grandfather also died from the black lung disease. It was brutal work that powered the American industrial age. God Bless All Miners in this world!
Beautiful music and amazing natural voice ... a very powerful song which speaks volumes ...
Total Respect to all miners ... past, present and future... Hero's one and all ...
So true buddie so true
@mikep7832 ........
Thank you ..... your very welcome ...
My father and all his male family were coal miners realminers real men salt of the earth
As a kid growing up I never realised what men went through to keep me warm during them cold winter nights
This song brings it home & sends a shiver down my spine
God bless all miners. Where would we be without them? Great song.
Great truth song for Ireland and Nova Scotia and many children working underground under the oceans by orphan trains subway.
I so love this song ever since i heard the late rita mcneill and foster and allen sing it, amazing voice this guy has, and sung well too.
Rita's version recorded on the album Journey to Australia was absolutely fantastic. Actually every song was brilliant.
Sadly this singer, George Donaldson, died a few years ago. Particularly sad for me as I only recently found this group "Celtic Thunder" who have put together some great songs. My thanks to all miners from underground, I admire you and wonder if I could have done your job. A bit late, now, I am 87. Was lucky enough to enjoy my working life.
Wonderful song, great singer.
What a life.
Certainly were a tough generation that lived through these times.
As a miner for over 20years. This song brings a lump to my throat. 1 year strike against Thatcher’s butchers. 😢
To the Nottingham scabs, hear this and remember what you did to your fellow miners
I remember that time ❤️🌺
So true wicked as hell
They missed!
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Well I don’t know how I discovered this treasure on RUclips but I sure am glad it popped up.
written by Rita MacNeil Cape Breton Island nova Scotia canada . Rita passed away 10 years ago
R.I.P Rita MacNeil 🙏🙏🙏
My dearly loved late Dad Tom worked as a miner, started working underground on the coal face, aged 24. Hard work and terrible working conditions, took early retirement, due to ill health at 60, he and my late Mum spent the next 5 years, either visiting hospital re appointments, or Mum and our family visiting Dad as an in patient in hospital. Dad would often say " I !can't see me collecting my pension" and tragically he was right, he passed away 2 weeks before his 65th birthday. My Parents met when Dad was 17 Mum 19 loved and respected each other through out their time together.❤
The Miners Song brought a lump to my throat, brought back memories of Dad when he was a healthy strong Man, before his illness took him.
Hank you have an amazing voice. Thanks.
I am sorry hear about late Dad Tom Catherine
Love this, my Dad was in the warm up to today 🤔 love this my Dad was a miner mm by
Miner's gave their all and more, my Uncle's in Cudworth where miners and proud of it. My Mother, also from Cudworth said she had witnessed miners killed in the mine brought home on a stretcher covered, except for their boots. When the siren sounded meaning there had been an accident, wives would rush to the mine and await news.
Gets me every time. From an old Welsh Miner (open cut) of over 20 yrs. Open cut was dangerous enough. I could not have done underground. Respect …
My late father was a working man .but good man had better plans for me his son.I expect to be 85 next month
Beautiful my friend, sang with a great depth of emotion, a heartbreaking time for so many communities.
A hard life, I couldn't imagine it. Brave men, condemned to an early grave 😥
Many are still alive like my father who was in 2 pit falls. He had 4 lovely children and each year would take us on holiday.
My grandad was a collier and I thought the world of him
My dad was a miner in Scotland. This song reminds of him and the stories he told me. Thanks for helping me to remember some of his stories.
My dad died from miners black lung disease at the age of 57. Still miss him and his Scottish accent.
What a story ....great men and short life expectancy....where are you now?
@@tomgreene1843
Living in Fla. moved from N.J. We immigrated to America when I was 3.
Sorry to hear about your Dad RIP ppl now realise what miners went thyro keep us warm god bless them all
@@TheRayDevYou'll never go back now!
@@tomgreene1843
I have been back a few times all my relatives are there. But you are right I love America, it welcomed us in and gave us the opportunity to a new life.
When asked to do my duty I was proud, and served in the army during the Vietnam war. There is still a part of me that is proud to be Scottish.
My granda was a miner in the Durham coal fields. Had blue scars on his head and arms from cuts and coal dust getting into his skin . I've been to Caphouse mining museum in Yorkshire. Well worth a visit .
As a Miner for most of working life in australia ,excellent
My grand father passed away during the strike in New Waterford and they set aside a day called Davis Day. Your voice and that song is beautifully,
God Bless ❤️
Hi@ Mary ieanunguran3971 I am sorry hear about your grand father passed Catherine,
One of my favourite songs Hank mate nicely done 👍🏻🤠
Awesome, cait dad and grandad worked at Pleasley pit. X
Love this song. THANK YOU, From Alaska.
Hi Lana, Hank here. Thank you so much it means a lot to me especially all the way from Alaska
The pit is now closed! This country is so changed. Dave (Hank) Taylor worked down the mines, he shared his toils with Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh and Jamaican etc, we all had the same colour at the end of the shift and we all worked feckin! Hard and after we all shared thick local beers and the same jokes.
I miss Alaska. I wish I was still there. Peace ☮️
We all forget the miner's dug the earth so that all are industries could thrive,we owe them our lives, they made Britain work they gave us heat to cook and light to see we can never forget them, but our government did 😢
The hardest of hard work, salute to those toilers.
I worked all my life in mines in West Yorkshire, Zambia , Botswana , Namibia , and here in South Africa ! Its hard work and no miner ever had a big belly like he has !!!
Its called beer. The pit is now closed! Dave (Hank) Taylor worked down the mines, he shared his toils with Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh and Jamaican etc, we all had the same colour at the end of the shift and we all worked feckin! Hard and after we all shared the same jokes.
Proper hard working without a doubt massive respect 🙏
My grandparents' story; South Wales. God Bless them
My husbands Father was 12 years old when he went down under ground😢..this was in Wales..
White slavery of its day.
12?!? WHAT YEAR? 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I am 4th generation, and last coal miner in our NZ Family to work underground. 1st Gen came from Scotland, and most of my ancestors were also miners. My Kin from small mining communities in Scotia are McEwans, McNeills, & Lees. The mine that we all worked in at some stage was actually started by Old Joe Taylor, an Englishman. The mine changed hands a couple of times, but was later managed by Ray Taylor sn (RiP), and finally by my father Brian James Hawthorn (RiP). I was in touch with his grandson Ray Taylor, until he died of Cancer several years ago (RiP).
The Mine ended up being owned By James Baird and Sons, managed by Phil Baird, when it finally closed after a cave in, in 1974. Love this song as only a miner can.
Thanks to remind us that suffering past like the song the green fields of France
I apreciate so much on my heart singing it for many years
Makes you wonder how many miners fought in WW1, on both sides. They had to dig tunnels under the enemy to place huge explosive mines, the largest was at Hawthorn Hill, a really huge explosion that was.
Greetings and well sung, from an Aussie, descended from Welsh coal miners, and brought up in the open-cut brown coal mining area of the Latrobe Valley in Mid Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
A good cover of the song written and performed by Canadian Rita MacNeil from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The coral group that you had to have been a miner to be able to join, The Men of the Deeps, also from Cape Breton also did a very good presentation.
Thanks so much for the information. Yes Hank Taylor worked in the mines of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire border, England. The song touched him and reminded him of the days he worked and lived. We decided to make a video of how the area has changed and now much quieter with less pubs to visit to quench the thirst, chat and have a little sing song. Mac
Rita and the Men of the Deeps did it first and best! A beautiful song from Rita.
@@Dr10Jeeps This song sung by Hank Taylor wasn't meant to be compared to a great professional singer. He is just a simple miner and sang it in his own way.
@@amcartistes I agree and I appreciate his version of this wonderful song.
@@amcartistes Well said. This is folk music, the voice of the working man, it doesn't have to be perfectly rendered
musically to express it's soul, this man singing is more authentic than the polished The Searchers could ever be.
Though if I was stuck on a island with the fella singing this and The Searchers I'd rather let the Aussies
do the singing, can't see him doing "Georgie Girl".
My Granda and my father were both Miners.
Granda lived unti, 92yrs and Dad is 91 in a couple of weeks,
Dàd is still alive but very ill at the moment.
At aged 16yrs I had a boyfriend who. Knew nothing about mining and asked Dad who was a Deputy by that time if he could arrange to take him underground. Well being headstrong i said if he is going so am I😮.
What an unforgettable experience, my Dad woukd only let me go so far though. I count it a privilege to have experienced a small part of his everyday workring life.
I Therefore am proud to call myself a Coal Miners Daughter❤
Thank you for this beautiful song which ive heard before but today i jusf happened to find it whilst scrolling . It was meant to be for me today at this very emotional time watching Dad suffering so much.❤
It wasn't all suffering. My dad was in 2 pit falls. Yet he still went to a dance, met my mother and had 4 lovely children
@@amcartistes I had 2 close calls one from a shot fired underground (Ricocheting stone) The other from a 1 piece, 1/2 ton rock fall about a foot behind me. Turn off your light when you are 3/4 mile underground, that's when you learn what Black really is.
My father was a miner and I went down a working pit once and I have no idea how they did that job day after day. Thatcher was wicked !
stupid comment! thatcher didnt make themgo down the pits. and she closed fewer pits than labour did.
She destroyed the values that i grew up with - She wrecked my country. God bless the miners and the Wapping printers.
Absolutely love it Hank 3:25
Great Track mate Thanks for putting it up. Now on my playlist. Greetings from Australia
The pit is now closed! Dave (Hank) Taylor worked down the mines, he shared his toils with Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh and Jamaican etc, we all had the same colour at the end of the shift and we all worked feckin! Hard and after we all shared the same jokes even the odd Australian one. Cheers.
If you subscribe he might make a video of a good old Australian drinking song. Cheers
Nice one.
I DEDICATE THIS GREAT SONG TO MY GRANDFATHER GOD BLESS BIG YIN X
The best version I have ever heard was by a Welsh fiend whose father was a coal miner. he had thge depth of voice and the power to really stir your emotions. RIP Jim Clifford.
I think Canada's Rita MacNeil, who wrote this song did the best version of it.
Well done. Irish potato famine descendant from Australia.Arthur Dunn
Beautiful
I never knew too much of my mothers family..to an extent..I do know..her father was a miner in the hill of kentucky and WV..she also had cousins that worked in them..some that still live in the area..her father..is still in those mines..my mother passed away in 1991..her father lost his life..in the 40’s
🐴 ❤️ ⚒️ GLÜCK AUF ⚒️ ❤️ 🐴
All the best from an ex-miner from Germany.
My dad's family where all pitmen my grandad was forty in the pit he always we work were angels don't tread
spent 12 years in submarines went down a pit for a few hours i know which was more daunting respect to all miners
God bless grandpa and my family work in min.I have saw all work so hard make
Pay for my family
Love this version. The black and white background blends so well with Hank to really put you in the setting. First class cover.
HEROES FOR EVER 👍
Hello From Florida! My father and uncles on both sides worked in the mines of West Virginia and Pennsylvania at some point in their lives. My father's favorite movie was How Green was my Valley. He said that's exactly how life was. I love the way Hank Taylor sings this song!
There was also the fun times. End of the week it was going to a dance or the pub even do a little dog racing
How green was my Valley, was indeed a great movie, any miner anywhere could relate to that one mate.
It brings tear as iwas a underground miner for 30 years
I am happy we have a good singer like Hank Taylor to perform this. THKS!
Rita Macneil (A great Canadian singer) wrote this song.
😪 RIP all that died for greed of others.
beautiful ..hank from..arabia.god bless all.
A thought to remember the coal miners of Mardy Wales.of which my grandfather was one.regards from NewZealand Mike
Lovely song beautifully sung thx thought-prevoking 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️
Im addicted to watching this beautiful man and his voice is amazing. I hope hes still here with us,he has the most beautiful beautiful peaceful peaceful aura around him , im sure he is just as wonderful as my dad big joe lavery was.xx
Great song n great singer' yes✌👍
Beautiful song
I would love to hear you sing this song with Rita McNeil.
I have never heard anyone sing this song better than Martin branigan….
Marvellous version of a Great song.
Sorry to hear this singer passed away, but what a fitting tribute to all the miners who risked their lives, god bless you all.
Beautiful video and a natural voice
Lovely well done
My grandfather was killed in a pit when there was a cave in thankfully his neck was broken immediately so at least he didn't suffer so I have a great efinaty with miner's RIP grandad
I love this song i have it by rita mcneal and he sings it exactly the same brings to mind my brother in law who was at blidwoth colliery in nottingham uk
Absolutely fantastic ❤
Love it.. Many thanks working man.
Absolutely 💯 BEAUTIFUL, God bless you 🙏 Sir ❤
The government, and the Royals didn’t give a damn about miners, or their families, wouldn’t even visit Aberfan. 💔
Amazing song absolutely love it Marty Australia
Dave (Hank) Taylor worked down the mines, he shared his toils with Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh and Jamaican, we all had the same colour at the end of the shift and we all shared the same jokes (Australia had some good ones too) ;)
@@amcartistes yea not much underground in Qld mostly open cut last underground going back 50yrs was in Somerset near Bishop Sutton cheers mate Marty Australia
@@elizaandalisa Not sure where that is mate, my old man was deputy for Les Theiss out at Blackwater back in the early 70s.
Know Blackwater I live at Yeppoon Qld last job I painted the fire station out there Bishop Sutton is in Somerset UK cheers n beers mate Marty
What a song
Brilliant
im a ex tin miner but worked with some NCB boys but this song brings back some good memories
What a shame that the pit have gone I'm welsh can't speak it I know I'm proved to be and my dad god bless him was down the mines and grandad bring bk them bk they best times for the ones who wete underground ❤
Beautifully done, best wishes from Nova Scotia, Canada where we have lost so many miners.
To all people who earn their living by hardd work i hope you find rest at the end of it 😊
A nice cool beer. Cheers.
God bless 🙏
I Love this Song 🎵 ❤️ Thank you ❤😊
Thankful for you's boys , well never die from
Sung with heart and feeling. I like the song.
A Rita McNeil penned song written to honour Cape Breton Miners. Rest in peace Rita
love this song
Brilliant, fair play.
So glad I found your channel. Such a lovely song. Thank you Sir.
I see singers and bands, all over the world sing this with no attribution to the writer. Rita Mac Neil from Big Pond , Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Watch her sing it with the Men of the the Deeps, retired coal miners.
My dad and my grandad were miners
I as a 16 year old went down on a tour of a coal mime.
I was scared, very scared.
When we csme up we were sent to shower.
4 times our tour guide sent us back to shower before he gave us towels.
Days after I was sneezing coal dust.
I heard that song about 40 years ago by snow Australian female folk singer on Irelands Late Late show.
She had Uncle Gabo as he was called and the audience in awe at the words as she explained why the song was written.
We all remember the school boys trapped in the cave and the international rescue mission as well as the coal miners rescued one by one after 6 weeks trapped under found. The rescuers drilled a small bore hole
enough to vent fresh air and deliver food and water. Then another metre diameter hole bored over a few weeks.
The miners trapped below must have been in hell for the duration.
When my coal miner died we found a letter from the govt. ordering him back down the pit because they needed coal to make steel to make arms for the army, navy and air force needed to fight the Germans in WW11. 41 years, no wonder they wrote a song.
From west france
My grandad and uncles were miners in south wales my dad was a toolmaker, we were on holiday at grad parents in south wales the main shaft had snapped all were out of work my dad fixed it with the help of the fitters. He said to me never go underground. Never did jeff from Wigan
I love this song as my granddad and 3 sons worked as a miner but my granddad died and my 2 uncles died and my father died after he left the miners