INTRO:
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VERSE
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It's hard when folks can't find their work
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Where they've been bred and born.
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When I was young I always thought
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I'd bide midst fruits and corn.
PD-C HORUS:
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But I've been forced to work in town
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So here's my litany:
CHORUS:
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From Hull and Halifax and Hell,
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Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
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When I was courtin' Mary Jane,
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Thee old squire, he says to me:
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"I've got no rooms for wedded folk;
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Choose, whether to go or to stay?"
PD-C HORUS:
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I could not give up the girl I loved,
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So to town I was forced to flee:
CHORUS:
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From Hull and Halifax and Hell,
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Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
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I've worked in Leeds an' Huddersfield
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I've earned some honest brass;
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In Bradford, Keighley, Rotherham,
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I've kept me barns an' lass.
PD-C HORUS:
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I've travelled all three Ridin's round,
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And once I went to sea:
CHORUS:
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From forges, mills, and coalin' boats,
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Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
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I've walked at night through Sheffield lanes
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Twas just like bein' in Hell:
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Where furnaces thrust out tongues o' fire,
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An' roared like the wind on the fell.
PD-C HORUS:
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I've sammed up coals in Barnsley pit
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With muck up to my knee:
CHORUS:
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From Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham,
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Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
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I've seen fog creep across Leeds Bridge
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As thick as the bastile soup;
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I've lived where folks were stowed away
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Like rabbits in a coop.
PD-C HORUS:
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I've seen snow float down Bradforth Beck
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As black as ebony:
CHORUS:
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Frae Hunslet, Holbeck, Wibsey Stack,
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Good Lord, deliver me!
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But now, that's all our children are gone
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To the country we've come back.
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There's forty mile of heathery moor
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Twixt' us and the coal-pit stack.
PD-C HORUS:
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And as I sit by the fire at night,
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I'll laugh and shout with glee:
CHORUS:
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From Hull, and Halifax, and Hell,
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The good Lord delivered me!