MEN OF THE DEEPS
Repertoire [* = Current material]

Traditional Mining Songs:
*Are You From Bevin?   [Collected by P. J. Thomas]
Black Is The Coaldust  [Collected by Ron MacEachern]
Caledonia, When I First Went To  [Collected by Ron MacEachern]
*Chain Runner's Song, The  [Collected by Ron MacEachern]
*Down Among The Coal  [Collected by John C. O'Donnell, tune:  An giolla ruad]
*Down Deep In A Coal Mine  [Collected by George Korson]
*Dust In The Air  [Collected by John C. O'Donnell]
*Farewell To The Cotia  [From the collection of Karl Dallas]
Government Store, The  [Collected by Helen Creighton]
I Went To Norman's  [Collected by Helen Creighton]
*Jolly Miner, The  [Collected by Helen Creighton]
*Jolly Wee Miner Men  [Collected by George Korson]
Kelly's Cove  [Collected by John C. O'Donnell]
*Miner's Life  [Collected by George Korson]
Miner's Lullaby  [From the collection of Karl Dallas]
*Miner's Memorial Hymn  ["Gresford (Final verse by Judith O'Donnell)]
*Oran do Ceap Breatainn  [Collected by Helen Creighton]
*Rap Her To Bank  [From the collection of  Karl Dallas]
*She Loves Her Miner Lad  [Collected by George Korson]
*Shirt Tale, The (poem)  [Collected by George Korson]
Tha Faileadh A' Ghuail (The Scent Of Coal)  [From the Collection of Donald Ferguson.  Tune: Mairi Bhan Og]

Traditional non-Mining Songs:
*Banks of Newfoundland, The  [Collected by Helen Creighton]
*Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill  [Collected by Edith Fowke]
*Farewell To Nova Scotia  [Collected by Helen Creighton]
*Rollin' Down To Old Maui  [From the collection of Stan Rogers]

Tradition Tunes:
Canny Miner, The  [Tune:  The Balqidder Lasses. Words by Ian Campbell]
Cape Breton Coal Miners, The  [Tune: Villikens And His Dinah. Words by Ray Holland]
*Coal By The Sea, The  [Tune:  Nine Years A Soldier. Words by Gerard MacNeil]
*Plain Ole Miner Boy  [Tune:  Plain Old Country Boy. Words by Nell Campbell]

Contemporary Mining Songs:
Aftermath  (Poem)  [by Al Provoe]
*Ballad of Springhill, The  [by Peggy Seeger]
*Billy, Come With Me  [by Leon Dubinsky]
Bell Island Miners, Remembering The  [by Wayne Ronstad]
*Cape Breton Silver  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Christmas In The Mine  [by Paul White]
*Coal Fire In Winter (poem)  [by Thomas McGrath]
*Coal, Not Dole  [byKay Sutcliffe]
Coal Man  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Coal Tattoo  [by Billy Edd Wheeler]
*Coal Town Road  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Dark As A Dungeon  [by Merle Travis]
*Devil's Coal, Mining the [by Kevin Assoun]
Don't Go Below  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Down In A Coal Mine  [by Charlie MacKinnon]
*Down In The Hillcrest Mine  [by James Keeleghan]
Down In The Mines Of South Africa [Peter Eastmere]
Farewell To The Rhonda  [by Frank Hennessey]
*Fire In The Mine [by Paul White]
*I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal  [by Billy Joe Schaver]
J. B. McLachlin  [by Charlie MacKinnon]
Joe Hill  [by Alfred Hayes & Earl Robinson]
Man With A Torch In His Cap, The  [by Helen C. MacDonald & Leon Dubinsky]
*Men of the Deep  [by Bruce Guthro]
*Number 26 Mine Disaster, The  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Old Miner, The
Remember The Miner  [by Leon Dubinsky]
Schooldays Over  [by Ewan MacColl]
Springhill Disaster of 1958, The  [by Maurice Ruddick]
*Sweet Guinevere  [by Gordon Lightfoot]
*There Lights Will Shine [by Ron MacDonald]
*Thirty-Inch Coal  [by Mike Paxton]
*Today We Took A Friend From The Mine  [by Paul White]
*Tramp Miner  [by Jimmy Rankin]
Unknown Miner's Grave  [by Mary Olive Chiasson & John C. O'Donnell]
Westville Miners, The  [by Eugene Johnson & Ron MacDonald]
*Who Are They?  (Poem: And Now The Fields Are Green)  [by Al Provoe]
*Working Man  [by Rita MacNeil]

Contemporary non-Mining Songs:
*Animals a-Comin', De [Spiritual]
*Away From The Roll Of The Sea  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Forty Hour Week (Let Us Thank You) ["Alabama": Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz & Lea Silver (adapted by J. O'Donnell)]
*If I Can't Take The Island With Me  [by Shauna Lee MacKillop and Aaron Lewis]
*Immigrant Eyes  [by Guy Clark and Roger Murrah]
Island, The  [by Kenzie MacNeil]
*Louisbourg  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Mary Ellen Carter, The  [by Stan Rogers]
*Marco Polo  [by Jim Stewart]
Northwest Passage  [by Stan Rogers]
Song For Cape Breton  (Tik's Song)  [by Allister MacGillivray]
*Song For The Mira  [by Allister MacGillivray]
Take Me Home  [by Rod Edwards & Roger Hand]
*You'll Be Home Again  [by Allister MacGillivray]


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