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The Lake Poets

Stevie Freestein II said:
That’s the first verse sorted. Nice one.

We can have a guitar solo on there somewhere and I think that coal miners and Pyrex workers deserve a mention too.


:eek: Blimey that’s better than mine. I will settle for #2 in the hit parade.
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I’m working down at Npower and me dads right cheesed off, as he was a miner who worked his knuckles to the bone keeping us little jam eaters going
Now them days are gone and he’s never struck a bat since Leaving thinks all the immigrants have took his work but he’s just a lazy bastard

Needs jigging by a pro wordsmith but the gyst is there
 

Tomma said:
Starts with a few seconds of silence, you hear a few words and then it cuts off.
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:lol:

hank evans said:
I’m working down at Npower and me dads right cheesed off, as he was a miner who worked his knuckles to the bone keeping us little jam eaters going
Now them days are gone and he’s never struck a bat since Leaving thinks all the immigrants have took his work but he’s just a lazy bastard

Needs jigging by a pro wordsmith but the gyst is there
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Are you Ivor novello?
 
Back to what’s giving us all an unmistakable whiff of onions chopping, I reckon it’s the line “I hope that I’m making you proud”. Gets me every time, at least. Whole generations of Mackems, always wanting to do their parents’ sacrifices proud. Sentimental folk we are.
 
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