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1971
Ye Mariners All
Argo ZDA 138
The World Of Folk
Argo SPA-A132
We Are The Engineers/I'm Gonna Be An Engineer
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers AUEW1
Folk Songs. A Collection Of Ballads And Broadsides. Topic Sampler 6
Topic TPS 201
Sea Songs And Shanties. Topic Sampler No 7
Topic TPS 205
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger
The Big Hewer
1967
Argo
DA 140
12-inch LP
Personnel:
Singers: Isla Cameron, Ian Campbell, Joe Higgins, Louis Killen, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl
Jim Bray: double bass
Brian Daly: guitar
Alf Edwards: English concertina, harmonica, clarinet
Alfie Kahn: tin whistle
Kay Graham: fiddle
Peggy Seeger: autoharp, guitar, mandolin, 5-string banjo
Dave Swarbrick: figgle

A radio-ballad (no.4) about Britain's coal miners
Related recordings:
The Ballad Of John Axon (Argo DA 139)
Singing The Fishing (Argo DA 142)
On The Edge (Argo DA 136)
The Fight Game (Argo DA 141)
The Travelling People (Argo DA 133)
The Big Hewer (Topic TSCD 804)
The reissue on CD is available from Topic Records