Songs and Rhymes of a Lead Miner is a 1921 poetry collection by Thomas Grierson Gracie, a lead miner from Wanlockhead. Its verses and songs reflect mining life, local places, memory, and wartime themes in Scots-inflected language. It offers a window into a Scottish mining community's everyday voice.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
THE AUTHOR. THE AUTHOR. SONGS AND RHYMES OF A LEAD MINER. By THOMAS GRIERSON GRACIE, Wanlockhead. DUMFRIES: COURIER AND HERALD PRESS. HIGH STREET. 1921. INDEX.
PERSONAL NOTE AND PREFACE DESCRIPTIVE PIECES— Ridge of Glengonar A Fishin' Splore Troloss The Otter Hunt The Bearers Mennock Burn Heights of Glendyne A Waddin' in the Glen Three Fishers Ma Wag-at-The-Wa' Curmudgeon Bonnie Banks o' Cree Chancellor's seat, Leadhills MEMORIAM PIECES— Last of the Old Band To Mr and Mrs James Slimmon Doctor Wilson Funeral of Private Alex. Howland Lines on a Friend Wullie Tamson Kitchener David Cumming Baby M'Kenzie Wanlock Lads Auld Volunteers Young Volunteers Pony Driver's Lament Bride's Lament Davy's Grave SONGS— The Auld Sangs My Auld Violin Auld Thackit Hoose Auld Grey Glen Level No. 6
Emergency Pump, Level No. 4 Turnin' o' the Wheel To Arms Happy Lover Never Seen More Wanlock's Buirdly Robin Lass o' Durisdeer Bonnie Jean Betty o' The Strankly Lass o' Glendoweran Sae Wull We Yet Doric o' Scotland Cheer Up Where is the Hindenburg Line? Forward Wanlock Auld Cronie Tam H.L.I. Brave Lads o' Sanquhar Mennock Burn MISCELLANEOUS PIECES— Scunner't Absent Friend The Miner Love Curlin' A Word o' Advice Jock The Exile The Old Churchyard Letter in Rhyme The Answer Note o' Thanks Leadhills Euchan's Banks On Higher Plane Song Birds The Photo "Something Wrang"
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