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The Collier’s Rant is a traditional Geordie folk song written many years ago (possibly c1650), the writer is unknown, in a style deriving from music hall. It is one of the oldest mining songs in existence. It was already popular, and had been for how long we do not know, when Joseph Ritson published it in his Northumberland Garland in 1793. It is still a very popular piece by choirs throughout the North-east of England. == Lyrics == There have been mine disasters as long as coal has been mined, going back long before medieval times. Some of these have been caused by gasses (the first reference to an explosion in a North-east mine appears to have been in 1621), some by rock falls, and some by plain carelessness, From early times the miners had viewed the pit with suspicion, and it was part folk lore, part fright, and part plain superstition, that many of the disasters had been attributed to the de’il (the devil) or his henchmen who lived at the bottom of the shaft in every pit. This old north eastern song confirms the superstition. The song appears in many publications including Joseph Cawhall’s “A beuk o’ Newcassel sangs” published in 1888 THE COLLIER’S RANT 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Collier’s Rant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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