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Now, come all you gallant colliers, wherever you may be
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Whether you work the Rhondda or in the north Country.
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All you who tunnel in the rock and dirt to earn your pay,
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They say your time is almost done and that coal has had its day.

We've tunnelled under mountains and beneath the salt-sea waves,
The slag heaps marked our victories, the rock-falls marked our graves.
We lay in sealed off galleries and listened for rescue teams,
And we scrabbled at the coal-face in the lousy two-foot seams.

We fuelled the ships upon the sea and the railways on the land
And a hundred thousand factories grew up on every hand;
We gave the fire that forged the steel from which the tools were made,
And the world we live in, it was built upon the miners’ trade.

But the age of coal is ending and the new age needs new skills,
With the fuel cell and atomics, there's another world to build.
And the men who built the old world, their kind will build the new,
For a world's not built by power alone but by men like me and you.