Recording
Rap ’er t’Bank
Sung by Sam Dodds
chorus
“Rap ’er t’bank, me canny lad,
Wind her away, keep turnin’,
Us back shift men are gannin’ hyem,
We’ll be back here in the mornin’.”
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Me father used to call the turn,
When the lang back-shift was ower,
Gannin’ outbye, you’d hear him cry:
“D’ye knaa itÕs after fower?”
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And then the awful day arrived,
The last shift for me father,
A fall of stones, and brokken bones,
But still above the clatter, he cried:
final chorus
“Rap ’er t’bank, me canny lad,
Wind her reet slow, that’s clever,
This poor old lad has taken bad,
I’ll be back here never.”
Sam Dodds