On the lookout

The two of them went riding off into the Future one day when they ran into a group of old people out looking for roots & when they stopped to see if they could help, all the old people laughed & said they had more experience. One woman said the Future wasn’t even there except for the bad parts, because the Future’s always worse than before & then the old people left, walking slowly, shouting at each other about the weather. The two of them looked at each other for a minute & then they said, let’s go off to the Future again & before they left they made a rule to keep on the lookout for old people.

- storypeople -

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Lost mine

Come all of you colliers that work down the mine

From Scotland to South Wales, from Teesdale to Tyne

I'll sing you a song of a pound a week rise

And the men who were fooled by the Government's lies

And it's down you go, down below, Jack

Where you never see the skies

And you're working in a dingeon

For a pound a week rise

In nineteen and sixty, a few years ago

The mineworkers' leaders to Lord Robens did go

Saying, "We work very hard, every day we risk our lives

And we ask you here and now for a pound a week rise"

Then up spoke Lord Robens, and he made this decree

"When the output rises then with you I will agree

To raise up all your wages, to give to you fair pay

For I was once a miner and I worked hard in my day"

So the miners they went home, they worked hard and well

With lungs full of coaldust in the bosom of hell

The output rose by sixteen, eighteen per cent and more

And when two years had passed and gone it rose above a score

Then the miners they went to get their hard-won prize

To ask Lord Robens for their pound a week rise

Robens wouldn't give a pound, he wouldn't give ten bob

He gave them seven-and-six and said, "Get back to your job"

So come all of you colliers, take heed what I say

And don't believe Lord Robens when he says he'll give fair pay

For he'll tell you to work hard, to make the output rise

You'll get Pie in the Sky instead of a one pound rise

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Lost...

"Red Guitars" (Poland) - "The White Cross"

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Steam engine

This steam engine and the building in the background are the last piece of the old sawmill.

Earlier the engine was in the basement of a big hall.

I was often down there and saw it, quite rusted.

Now they have brought it up and repainted, as a technical monument.

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Wordless - без слов -

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