Harry Stone (Hearts Of Coal) Lyrics

Harry Stone was a miner born He worked to win his wages Riding down the cages And raging at the seams He worked his stall from dusk till dawn Sweet sweat and raw endeavour Black diamonds bound together By a strong and simple means He met a girl from Ironville He promised he would love her He'd put no-one above her At last they went to town He promised he would love her Til the blackbirds stopped their singing The mission bell stopped ringing And they closed the coal pit down chorus Where are you tonight now we need you Left out in the cold - cold Where are you tonight now we need you They broke the hearts of coal Hearts of coal They raised their children chapel proud The lamb and the flag to guide them They each strove to provide them With a sense of right from wrong And when the strikes and lock-outs came And bare-foot hunger tried them All hopes were denied them Their unity held strong chorus Forty years of coal-dust Is a lot of pain to carry It made a cripple out of Harry But his family came and took up his tools And they faced the Orgreave cavalry While the world looked on and wondered Their right to work was plundered By the statesman-ship of fools chorus The 'Enemy Within' they cried And the boney finger pointed Dripping gold from the anointed At the beggar and her bowl And just like the Union said he would The axeman came in dancing His psychopathic prancing Chopped out the hearts of coal chorus He promised he would love her Til the blackbirds stopped their singing The mission bells stopped ringing And they closed the coal pit down