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1. A Sad Day on the Coalfields (Tragedy At Rothbury) •••
Union Songs songs articles recordings books films song links union links A Sad Day on the Coalfields (Tragedy At Rothbury) A Song by Roger Grant...
  ...A Sad Day on the Coalfields (Tragedy At Rothbury) A Song by Roger Grant (1929) There were sounds of sobs and crying as the daylight floods the sky,...
  ...Across the bush to Rothbury whose surface leaves a track To the boys who went on picket and the boy who'll never come back. There was music at the...
  ...Across the bush to Rothbury whose surface leaves a track To the boys who went on picket and the boy who'll never come back. Notes I found this...
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2. Rothbury •••
Union Songs songs articles recordings books films song links union links Rothbury A song by Maurie Mulheron İMaurie Mulheron 1984 There's...
  ...Rothbury A song by Maurie Mulheron İMaurie Mulheron 1984 There's grapes for the rich on the graves of the dead There's songs unsung and tales to be...
  ...and killed by police while demonstrating with fellow miners outside the Rothbury mine in Cessnock New South Wales in 1929. the Sydney Morning Herald of...
  ...Police fire on massed pickets at Rothbury Mine Reinforcements rushed from Sydney See also Norman Brown in this collection Thanks to Maurie Mulheron...
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3. The Country Knows The Rest ••
Union Songs songs articles recordings books films song links union links The Country Knows The Rest play mp3 or A Song by Graham SealİGraham...
  ...Rothbury town, The miners were all locked out and our wage had been knocked down, From March until December we lived on bread and dole, Until the...
  ...women of Rothbury determined to stand fast. All across the coalfields miners heard the call, On a warm night in December they met at Rothbury, one and...
  ...But when we reached the Rothbury mine gates a bloodier day was born - And the country knows the rest The police were in the bushes with pistols in...
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4. Ballad of Norman Brown ••
Union Songs songs articles recordings books films song links union links Ballad of Norman Brown A song by Dorothy HewettİDorothy Hewett 1962...
  ...They shot him down in Rothbury town, A working man called Norman Brown. "An honest man," the parson said, And dropped the clods upon his head, But...
  ...They shot him down in Rothbury town, To live forever ... Norman Brown. Notes Many thanks to Merv Lilley for permission to add this poem to the...
  ...Miners decided to take them on. Around 4000 of them made there way to Rothbury on December 16th and the police opened fire killing the young miner Norman...
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5. The Past is Before Us (1) ••
Union Songs songs articles recordings books films song links union links The Past is Before Us: The Ninth National Labour History Conference...
  ...bands viable. He relates the role of the music during the 1929 lockout at Rothbury in the Hunter Valley when the Greta Miners Band played a song called...
  ...as has 'Norman Brown', a song about a miner shot dead by police during the Rothbury Lockout in 1929. One of the Hunter Valley's best known poets, Jock...
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6. Working for Coal CD ••
Union Songs songs articles recordings books films song links union links Working for Coal An article by Mark Gregory (Dec 2002) Coal mining...
  ...way to Rothbury on December 16th and the police opened fire killing the young miner Norman Brown and wounding many others. Jim Comerford was at Rothbury...
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7. Union Songs and Poems: Titles ••
Union Songs songs authors articles recordings books films song links union links Songs and poems More than 680 songs and poems, over 265...
  ...A Sad Day on the Coalfields (Tragedy at Rothbury) A Stiff's Progress A Tour De Farce A Union Man ABCC Misery Ah Cud Hew All For Me Job All...
  ...Rothbury Rotten to the core Rudyard Winston Zimmerman's 119th dream Safe in Public Hands The Safe Thing Sailing The Sailor Home From the Sea Saint...
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