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Drop Hammer

from Sheffield Made by Steel Songbirds

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Written by Chris While, about the women of Sheffield UK, who kept the factories running while the men were off fighting in the wars.

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11. Drop Hammer
© Chris While (Circuit Music Ltd)

There's a pounding in the city
And a beating in the air
And a foundry making cold steel
You can hear it everywhere

Chorus
Hear the drop hammer
Hear the drop hammer
Hear the drop hammer
All day and all of the night

The men have all gone marching
We'll see them who knows when?
So the women here will keep
the factories running until then

There's me and my three sisters
And seven cousins too
And my old mother will mind the kids
while we our duty do

We sing while we are working
That Tipperary song
Depending on each other
till the working day is done

It's the sound of the heart of Sheffield
It's the arm that's never still
And I bet my heart will stop
before that hammer ever will

There's a pounding in the city
And a beating in the air
And a foundry making cold steel
You can hear it everywhere

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from Sheffield Made, released February 15, 2019
Chris While (Circuit Music Ltd)

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Steel Songbirds Sheffield, UK

Steel Songbirds are Marilla Homes and Emily Eastwood. A comic and poignant musical duo based in Sheffield UK. Blending acapella voices, with occasional fiddle or bouzouki, these girls know how to laugh!

Steel Songbirds were dug from the soil of Australia & England, forged in Sheffield UK, tempered in the swimming pool of life & sharpened on the wit of singledom in the folk/pub/archaeology worlds. ... more

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