In memory of my grandfather, Frank, "hewer of coal" in the 1921 census, who spent most of his working life at the Ocean colliery, Blaengarw and the Ffaldau colliery, Pontycymmer, died at 63 of silicosis.

Proud to be welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪

I did 20 years at Littleton colliery ime 64 now still working and I miss it so much I will always be a miner and the strike I would do it again tomorrow

In the late 70s and early 80s I was a brewer in Edinburgh and in anticipation of the Welsh supporters arriving in Edinburgh (a lot of them for the week) for the Murrayfield encounter with Scotland we used to double our brewing for a week a month before in anticipation. The Sales department would question what we thought we were doing and we had to say trust us it will all sell. It always did... Great days.

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Thanks for sharing, shared.

Thatcher and scargil fucked we the miners over

I was a coal miner, this song 🎵 is excellent 👌 👍 ❤️🙂⚘️

Not just a fantastic vocalist, but a comedic genius ❤

Marvelous I love it here .❤

I think of my grandfather this song

Welsh legend, my wife is Peruvian but rest assured our kids will grow up to Max Boyce.

@malcolm kee

Reminds me of my Dad in the Ffaldau pit Pontycymmer

My dad was a miner in shields on the northeast coast hes gone now ten Year's but i have a manorial tattoo off a davy lamp lord i miss him and all the memories and a real coal fire when i was little

What they could never grasp (or maybe they could and just didn't care) was they weren't just closing mines and steelworks etc., they were decimating communities and whole areas that would never recover.

He's absolutely brilliant

Burn in hell thatcher

Max's finest moment, from his Celtic cousin. 'S math a rinn thu, a charaid.

A great entertainer.

I'm 53 now and this tune has been with me most of my life. Its sheer class, and brings back memories of road trips where my parents had this cassette on a player sat on mums lap. Car only had a radio, these days of course we can magic Max out of thin air to listen anywhere. Thanks for posting this gem of a tune. Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Home for me😁raised In the mumbles. 💖gower love this song

What a lovely song . And area too live.♥️

Beautifully sad song, love Max x

Man I love love love this song

Fantastic so funny i mealy wet my pants laughing That Is entertainment just good clean fun

We used to drive down from Wigan. My Father comes from Seven.. He drove the miles.. We crossed the Valley road.. I felt the warmth of open arms and a ready bed...Mamo x

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A son of a welsh miner ,born in a mining village the pits are all gone and sad to say alot of the community spirit but its slowly getting back its heritage yes my father had his mining souvenirs RIP Dad 😢

Feeling low today, knew Max would cheer me up xx

What a great song ,brings ties tomy eyes when i listen,max has such a talent to tell the truth

A Swansea Jack here, great place to live..beautiful bay, lovely beaches, I could never live away from the Ocean. I want my ashes scattered into Swansea Bay.

I was there. Never seen anything like it before. There were huge satellite dishes blowing off buildings. I remember it being calm then out of nowhere the sh1t hit the fan and it went completely dark. It blew over pretty quickly but did a lot of damage.

Makes me laugh out loud, and not much does 😅🤣👏

Went to Abertawe University from 2060 to 2064, this brings back many happy memories, the visuals are amazing.

It angers me still that Thatcher called the nobility of the working class " the enemy within". I am the proud grandson of. Rhondda Valley collier. Max has written a perfect elegy for these wonderful people.

It’s not just because they closed the pits, but hey destroyed the community. Governments after could of invested in green factories in our areas but probably scared of our unions but should look to our work

And tonight my beloved adopted country won in Paris..waay hey the Scots... ensuring my blood nation won the championship

come on the boys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Oh god, csn anyone please give me the chorus of this song. I cant get it out of me head.

Surely; Sir Max

I love this song because it's based in swansea and Swansea is the best Welsh football team ever

Beautiful town my beautiful Nan was from❤ REST IN PEACE MY ANGEL 😇

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Went in and out the curtain so many times they called him swish 😂😂😂

At least thatchers dead

I'm proud to be a Swansea Jack than a Cardiff twat and so are all of my friends but the millennium stadium in Cardiff is the Best 1 in the entire world

I am not a coalminer. I do not know any coalminers. This song makes me cry every time I hear it. This singer is a miner of 8 years. Every syllable is filled with pain and there is no nostalgia. He is singing for me, for the hardship in my life, too. I have heard several excellent mining songs (sung by Dylan,Lightfoot,Travis,SteeleSpn). None of those songs comes close to this.

Newport boy emigrated to Australia 20 years ago. I watch them here digging high quality thermal and metallurgical coal off the surface, 10,000 tons before breakfast and realise that the Welsh miners could never compete on cost. It was then just a question of when the subsidies would end. It breaks my heart to have seen the heavy industry ( and the wealth and good jobs) die over the last 40 years but there are no easy answers.