Working Man (the miners song). 

My dad almost died on my first birthday in a coal face collapse. I count myself lucky that he survived and I knew and loved him until he died not so long ago at the age of 89. Rest in peace with mum Dad

my father was a miner in derbyshire happy times but hard work thanks dad and all miners that risked their lives every day respect.

God bless all miners. Where would we be without them? Great song.

People like is what makes our lives better. Thank you for the sacrifices.

My grandfather survived the first world war, came home to a wife and three children [ a fourth died while he was overseas] and when he got work, walked 15 miles to his nearest pit. It sickens me with all this work from home mularkey. some people have no concept of self worth, pride, or graft. His two brothers were also miners. Now they were real man. I salute those who aren't with us any longer and those who can still remember the camerarderie.

As a kid growing up I never realised what men went through to keep me warm during them cold winter nights This song brings it home & sends a shiver down my spine

Beautiful my friend, sang with a great depth of emotion, a heartbreaking time for so many communities.

Love this song my Father, Grandfathers, uncles were miners in the Pennsylvania hard coal region. My maternal Grandfather was killed in a cave in Shenandoah, Pa in 1939. My father was one of the rescuers who brought him out of the mine, My Father also died from black lung disease. He started working as a breaker boy at age 12 and became a full fledged miner at age 16. My paternal Grandfather also died from the black lung disease. It was brutal work that powered the American industrial age. God Bless All Miners in this world!

My father and all his male family were coal miners realminers real men salt of the earth

Well I don’t know how I discovered this treasure on RU-vid but I sure am glad it popped up.

Great truth song for Ireland and Nova Scotia and many children working underground under the oceans by orphan trains subway.

Thatcher ripped the guts out of communities, shame on her! Beautiful song and singing. Bless.

My late father was a working man .but good man had better plans for me his son.I expect to be 85 next month

Beautiful music and amazing natural voice ... a very powerful song which speaks volumes ... Total Respect to all miners ... past, present and future... Hero's one and all ...

One of my favourite songs Hank mate nicely done 👍🏻🤠

A hard life, I couldn't imagine it. Brave men, condemned to an early grave 😥

My grandad was a collier and I thought the world of him

Absolutely love it Hank 3:25

As a Miner for most of working life in australia ,excellent

I so love this song ever since i heard the late rita mcneill and foster and allen sing it, amazing voice this guy has, and sung well too.

My granda was a miner in the Durham coal fields. Had blue scars on his head and arms from cuts and coal dust getting into his skin . I've been to Caphouse mining museum in Yorkshire. Well worth a visit .

Proper hard working without a doubt massive respect 🙏

The hardest of hard work, salute to those toilers.

My grand father passed away during the strike in New Waterford and they set aside a day called Davis Day. Your voice and that song is beautifully,

As a miner for over 20years. This song brings a lump to my throat. 1 year strike against Thatcher’s butchers. 😢

Awesome, cait dad and grandad worked at Pleasley pit. X

My dearly loved late Dad Tom worked as a miner, started working underground on the coal face, aged 24. Hard work and terrible working conditions, took early retirement, due to ill health at 60, he and my late Mum spent the next 5 years, either visiting hospital re appointments, or Mum and our family visiting Dad as an in patient in hospital. Dad would often say " I !can't see me collecting my pension" and tragically he was right, he passed away 2 weeks before his 65th birthday. My Parents met when Dad was 17 Mum 19 loved and respected each other through out their time together.❤ The Miners Song brought a lump to my throat, brought back memories of Dad when he was a healthy strong Man, before his illness took him. Hank you have an amazing voice. Thanks.

Greetings and well sung, from an Aussie, descended from Welsh coal miners, and brought up in the open-cut brown coal mining area of the Latrobe Valley in Mid Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

My dad was a miner in Scotland. This song reminds of him and the stories he told me. Thanks for helping me to remember some of his stories. My dad died from miners black lung disease at the age of 57. Still miss him and his Scottish accent.

written by Rita MacNeil Cape Breton Island nova Scotia canada . Rita passed away 10 years ago

My grandparents' story; South Wales. God Bless them

Love this song. THANK YOU, From Alaska.

Nice one.

Well done. Irish potato famine descendant from Australia.Arthur Dunn

I am 4th generation, and last coal miner in our NZ Family to work underground. 1st Gen came from Scotland, and most of my ancestors were also miners. My Kin from small mining communities in Scotia are McEwans, McNeills, & Lees. The mine that we all worked in at some stage was actually started by Old Joe Taylor, an Englishman. The mine changed hands a couple of times, but was later managed by Ray Taylor sn (RiP), and finally by my father Brian James Hawthorn (RiP). I was in touch with his grandson Ray Taylor, until he died of Cancer several years ago (RiP). The Mine ended up being owned By James Baird and Sons, managed by Phil Baird, when it finally closed after a cave in, in 1974. Love this song as only a miner can.

HEROES FOR EVER 👍

Beautiful

Thanks to remind us that suffering past like the song the green fields of France I apreciate so much on my heart singing it for many years

Love this version. The black and white background blends so well with Hank to really put you in the setting. First class cover.

We all forget the miner's dug the earth so that all are industries could thrive,we owe them our lives, they made Britain work they gave us heat to cook and light to see we can never forget them, but our government did 😢

I DEDICATE THIS GREAT SONG TO MY GRANDFATHER GOD BLESS BIG YIN X

I am happy we have a good singer like Hank Taylor to perform this. THKS!

Great Track mate Thanks for putting it up. Now on my playlist. Greetings from Australia

🐴 ❤️ ⚒️ GLÜCK AUF ⚒️ ❤️ 🐴 All the best from an ex-miner from Germany.

Hello From Florida! My father and uncles on both sides worked in the mines of West Virginia and Pennsylvania at some point in their lives. My father's favorite movie was How Green was my Valley. He said that's exactly how life was. I love the way Hank Taylor sings this song!

Lovely song beautifully sung thx thought-prevoking 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️

My Granda and my father were both Miners. Granda lived unti, 92yrs and Dad is 91 in a couple of weeks, Dàd is still alive but very ill at the moment. At aged 16yrs I had a boyfriend who. Knew nothing about mining and asked Dad who was a Deputy by that time if he could arrange to take him underground. Well being headstrong i said if he is going so am I😮. What an unforgettable experience, my Dad woukd only let me go so far though. I count it a privilege to have experienced a small part of his everyday workring life. I Therefore am proud to call myself a Coal Miners Daughter❤ Thank you for this beautiful song which ive heard before but today i jusf happened to find it whilst scrolling . It was meant to be for me today at this very emotional time watching Dad suffering so much.❤

My husbands Father was 12 years old when he went down under ground😢..this was in Wales..

😪 RIP all that died for greed of others.

The best version I have ever heard was by a Welsh fiend whose father was a coal miner. he had thge depth of voice and the power to really stir your emotions. RIP Jim Clifford.

beautiful ..hank from..arabia.god bless all.

God bless grandpa and my family work in min.I have saw all work so hard make Pay for my family

A good cover of the song written and performed by Canadian Rita MacNeil from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The coral group that you had to have been a miner to be able to join, The Men of the Deeps, also from Cape Breton also did a very good presentation.

spent 12 years in submarines went down a pit for a few hours i know which was more daunting respect to all miners

Marvellous version of a Great song.

My father was a miner and I went down a working pit once and I have no idea how they did that job day after day. Thatcher was wicked !

A thought to remember the coal miners of Mardy Wales.of which my grandfather was one.regards from NewZealand Mike

Beautiful song

I worked all my life in mines in West Yorkshire, Zambia , Botswana , Namibia , and here in South Africa ! Its hard work and no miner ever had a big belly like he has !!!

I never knew too much of my mothers family..to an extent..I do know..her father was a miner in the hill of kentucky and WV..she also had cousins that worked in them..some that still live in the area..her father..is still in those mines..my mother passed away in 1991..her father lost his life..in the 40’s

Beautiful video and a natural voice

Lovely well done

Absolutely fantastic ❤

It brings tear as iwas a underground miner for 30 years

Absolutely 💯 BEAUTIFUL, God bless you 🙏 Sir ❤

I have never heard anyone sing this song better than Martin branigan….

I would love to hear you sing this song with Rita McNeil.

Rita Macneil (A great Canadian singer) wrote this song.

Im addicted to watching this beautiful man and his voice is amazing. I hope hes still here with us,he has the most beautiful beautiful peaceful peaceful aura around him , im sure he is just as wonderful as my dad big joe lavery was.xx

What a song

God bless 🙏

Sorry to hear this singer passed away, but what a fitting tribute to all the miners who risked their lives, god bless you all.

Amazing song absolutely love it Marty Australia

Brilliant

Great song n great singer' yes✌👍

My dad's family where all pitmen my grandad was forty in the pit he always we work were angels don't tread

I love this song as my granddad and 3 sons worked as a miner but my granddad died and my 2 uncles died and my father died after he left the miners

Love it.. Many thanks working man.

I Love this Song 🎵 ❤️ Thank you ❤😊

im a ex tin miner but worked with some NCB boys but this song brings back some good memories

Brilliant, fair play.

My grandfather was killed in a pit when there was a cave in thankfully his neck was broken immediately so at least he didn't suffer so I have a great efinaty with miner's RIP grandad

Thankful for you's boys , well never die from

love this song

From west france

I love this song i have it by rita mcneal and he sings it exactly the same brings to mind my brother in law who was at blidwoth colliery in nottingham uk

Beautifully done, best wishes from Nova Scotia, Canada where we have lost so many miners.

So glad I found your channel. Such a lovely song. Thank you Sir.

The government, and the Royals didn’t give a damn about miners, or their families, wouldn’t even visit Aberfan. 💔

A great version 😢👏👏

Sung with heart and feeling. I like the song.

To all people who earn their living by hardd work i hope you find rest at the end of it 😊

So heartbeat beautiful 😢

What a shame that the pit have gone I'm welsh can't speak it I know I'm proved to be and my dad god bless him was down the mines and grandad bring bk them bk they best times for the ones who wete underground ❤

My dad and my grandad were miners

A Rita McNeil penned song written to honour Cape Breton Miners. Rest in peace Rita

I as a 16 year old went down on a tour of a coal mime. I was scared, very scared. When we csme up we were sent to shower. 4 times our tour guide sent us back to shower before he gave us towels. Days after I was sneezing coal dust. I heard that song about 40 years ago by snow Australian female folk singer on Irelands Late Late show. She had Uncle Gabo as he was called and the audience in awe at the words as she explained why the song was written. We all remember the school boys trapped in the cave and the international rescue mission as well as the coal miners rescued one by one after 6 weeks trapped under found. The rescuers drilled a small bore hole enough to vent fresh air and deliver food and water. Then another metre diameter hole bored over a few weeks. The miners trapped below must have been in hell for the duration.

beautiful .

What a lovely man.❤

My grandad and uncles were miners in south wales my dad was a toolmaker, we were on holiday at grad parents in south wales the main shaft had snapped all were out of work my dad fixed it with the help of the fitters. He said to me never go underground. Never did jeff from Wigan