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Song#1 Recorded at HarmonyArts 2013. "Unquestionably, North East England was the richest, most indisputably authentic home of industrial folksong and of coalmining ballads in particular. And Thomas Armstrong (1848-1919), 'the Tanfield Colliery poet', was its great hero. Come All Ye Bold Miners, 1952's great anthology of coalfield ballads, concluded with Armstrong's "The Row Between the Cages", justly implying that this was as good as mining songs could get. The tale of two fightable colliers who don't always play by Queensberry Rules, has the lot: demotic language, humour, an affectionate humanity, an artfulness that's entirely self-effacing but absolutely there. Above all a sense of real, lived experience shared by singer and listener: as fine a pragmatic definition of folksong as you'll find." It's actually an anthropomorphic song in which the cages which took the miners down to the coalface and, if they were lucky, back to the surface, get into an argument and then a scrap about which of them is the best at doing the job. We stole our version from the very fine one by Bob Fox and Stu Luckley.
There are (at least) two New Zealand songs about a swagman by the name of Concertina Joe, a real life character who, as one song says "....shore in New Zealand, Australia and in the Argentine..." This one we got from the singing of Phil Garland.