Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk Farewell to South Yorkshire 
Farewell to South Yorkshire 
The pithead's gone at Dinnington and it is plain to see No jobs at all in Meadowhall for working men like me I'll have a whirl, I'll kiss the girls and I will earn my pay And to that plane yet once again I'll be on my way 
We'd Yorkshire and black puddings by the Vatican the tops And from a Roman market stall they'd sell you Barnsley chops We were all aplomb and home from Rome to leave it seemed so crass Then there came this German job, it offered us more brass 
When I was but a lad at school there was strife throughout this land The NCB shut Cortonwood, the miners made a stand They faced financial ruin, it lasted for a year While Dad strode proud behind the band, mother hid her tears 
But business is now booming - we are doing well Selling holidays to Yorkshire and we know how to sell Industrial museums, the Germans love them fine The highlight of a week long stay, a day down Caphouse mine 
So are you proud Mrs. T. what you did to all I know And Arthur Scargill told the truth, not everyone felt so The years have rolled, the time has told its not a pretty sight When all was done and said and won we fought for what was right 
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