| F | |
| Mother I fear for the laddies |
| Bb | Bb/A | Gm | |
| There ain't much more coal to go d | own to |
| Bb | Bb/A | |
| There ain't much more soul |
| Gm | |
| To get ro | und to |
| F | Bb | F | |
| Not anymore |
| Mother I hear for the laddies |
| Ain't much more soul to get round to |
| Lessening of companies that are finding |
| Things to bind to it anymore |
| Bb | C7 | |
| I'd hate to just realise why |
| That company's getting so shy |
| The bairns don't have get-togethers |
| F | |
| Round here not anymore |
| Mother I hear for the laddies |
| Talking 'bout going on down to |
| The town where the money's just bound to |
| Surely just ease the door |
| F ............ |
| It's happening all over the city |
| Bb........................ |
| There ain't much more doubt |
| To get down to |
| Lessening of reasons |
| That can send you |
| Back down for more |
| 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 |
| So mother I fear for the laddies |
| Father says no one goes down to |
| The face of some mine no boy of mine's |
| Gonna be bound to, anymore |
| The future, a brave new awakening |
| Have to no more go back down to |
| The bowels of this earth that will take you |
| Away from home and more |