brave awakening

mother, i fear for the laddies, there ain't much more coal to go down to, there ain't much more soul to get round to, not anymore, mother, i fear for the laddies, ain't much more soul to get round to, lessening of companies that are finding, things to bind to it anymore, i'd hate to just realize why, that company's getting so shy, the bairns don't have get togethers, 'round here not anymore, it's happening all over the city, talking 'bout going on down to, the town where the money's just bound to, surely just ease the door, they're telling their sisters of why, feelings that pass them close by, all that they seek is what they're wanting to keep, and it's glistening right there in their eyes, oh mother i fear for the laddies, father, says no one goes down to, the face of some mine no boy of mines, gonna be bound to, anymore, the future's, a brave new awakening, have to no more go back down to, bowels of this earth that will take you, away from home and more, home home home, working in a coal mine