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Poverty Knock

Roy Palmer (editors) Poverty Knock A picture of industrial life in the nineteenth century through songs, ballads and contemporary accounts Cambridge University Press, 1974; re-issued 2011 ISBN 978-0-521-20433-9

The Songs

1. Factory Life: The Dreary Old Drive

1. The Jovial Cutlers
2. Foster’s Mill (TYG 63)
3. The Factory Bell (Roud V15487)
4. The Morn Is Black
5. The Knocker-Up (Roud 24339)
6. Poverty Knock (Roud 3491; TYG 14)
7. The Doffing Mistress (Roud 2133)
8. The Handsome Factory Girl
9. The Merry Shoots
10. The Carpet Weaver’s True Tale (RoudBS B248970)
11. The Preston Steam-Loom Weaver
12. The Coventry Weaver
13. Nailers’ Song
14. The Nailmakers’ Strike
15. The Poor Nailmaker
16. Tally I O, the Grinder!
17. Joe, the Factory Lad
18. The Matchgirls’ Song
19. Holly Ho

2. Pit Life: Down Among the Coal

20. Down the Pit We Want to Go
21. Working Today
22. The Pony Driver
23. The Collier Lass (Roud V7863)
24. The Collier (RoudBS B219859)
25. Five in the Morning (Roud V651)
26. The Collier Lads (Roud V8895)
27. Down Among the Coal
28. Lament for John Sneddon (Roud V41869)
29. Gresford Disaster (Roud 3089)
30. The Brave Dudley Boys (Roud 1131)
31. O Bury the Blackleg
32. The Collier Lad’s Lament (Roud 7064)