Miner Came from Work- kixgrix (Wales) c.1945
[Posted in 2007 by kixgrix-- http://able2know.org/topic/52-2. Comments follow.
R. Matteson 2017]
Kixgrix comments: I don't know who wrote it, but the original lyrics of this song were sung to me by my welsh father when I was little. We still laugh about how he sang songs about a woman hanging herself to his young uns, but at the time we were transfixed...
The words (which he learnt while in the army (WWII) are as follows:
A miner came [home] from work one night
And found his house without a light
He went upstairs to go to bed
When a sudden thought came to his head
He went into his daughter's room
And found her hanging from a beam
He took his knife and cut her down
And on her breast these words he found
Oh Lord I wish my child was born,
And all my troubles they were gone;
So dig my grave and dig it deep
And plant white lilies at my feet.
They dug her grave and dug it deep
And planted lilies at her feet
And now she lies deep underground
Where love is lost and never found.
So all you maidens bear in mind
A soldiers heart is hard to find
So if you find one good and true
Don't change the old one for a new.