:05:29
Then came the scrubbing,
out in the back yard.
:05:33
It was the duty of my sister Angharad
to bring the buckets of hot water and cold,
:05:38
and I performed what little tasks I could
:05:41
as my father and brothers
scrubbed the coal dust from their backs.
:05:45
Most would come off them,
but some would stay for life.
:05:49
It is the honourable badge of the coal miner,
:05:52
and I envied it
on my father and grown-up brothers.
:05:56
Scrub and scrub,
Mr Coal would lie there and laugh at you.