Big Chimney - Richard Thompson, Danny Thompson

All of my life I feed the big chimney

Coke and ore, I pour it in Food for the hungry mouth of the monster

Got to keep the production rolling

Black ore, brown ore and Santander

Pour that Blue Billy onto the bell

Eighteen hundredweight on the barrow

Lift that ore and push like hell

Pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Drive the steel bar into the taphole

Pour the metal down into the sows

Blasted one side, frozen the other side

Rain and snow and sleet and blow

Taller than the church’s steeple

Forever the big chimney owns my soul

I’m midwife to a pig of iron

Born of flame and sweat and coal

Pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

All of my life I feed the big chimney

Coke and ore, I pour it in Food for the hungry mouth of the monster

Got to keep the production rolling

Pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron

Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron