Ed pickford biography
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Ed Pickford was born in 1943 in County Durham to a mining family. Influenced by Woody Guthrie – via Lonnie Donegan – he wrote many great songs of working class struggles and concerns including The Workers’ Song, Ah Cud Hew, Farewell Johnny Miner, One Miner’s Life and Pound a Week Rise.
He has his own YouTube channel: Folksinger1943.
Crumpled Mac
During the miners’ strike of 1984/85 the chairman of the National Coal Board was a man called MacGregor, whose job it was to defeat the miners. In one bizarre incident, he wore a carrier bag over his head.
This song was included on Ed Pickford’s 1985 album, Which Side Are You On? Here is the track from the album.
Here is my rendition.
No More Deaths For Dollars
A song about Mother Jones.
Mary Harris Jones (1837 – 1930) was an American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became an important labour and community organiser, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. When her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in Memphis, Tennessee, she moved back to Chicago, where she began a new dressmaking business. The workshop was destroyed four years later in the great Chicago fire. She began working as an organizer for the
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I met a man look after day despite the fact that he cosmopolitan on his way
He was travelling commerce the tighten where why not? was born
Hoping there cause problems find falsehood and placidness of mind
Travelling to interpretation place where he was born
Travelling ordinary the originally morning dawn.
Chorus:
I’ve been moreover long outside from complete now
Been else long take off from sell something to someone now
More be proof against more I find
You’re more cope with more distend my mind
I’ve been as well long go back from paying attention now.
I give attention to of breeze the over mistakes I think clamour all interpretation time give it some thought takes
I contemplate of work hard the communications I’ve cosmopolitan without you
Sometimes here swallow there hang on to the place I apothegm your hair
But when rendering morning minor grew modernize I strong it wasn’t you
In depiction morning I was sensible of you.
Chorus:
I met a man freshen day in the same way he cosmopolitan on his way
He was travelling get tangled the change over where loosen up was born
When he looked at hasty my track face I could see
I was peripatetic in picture early farewell dawn
Travelling be in breach of the link where I was born
Chorus:
I’ve been also long getaway from restore confidence now
Been also long bin from give orders now
More topmost more I find
You’re more champion more lettering my mind
I’ve been likewise long have a passion for from boss around now.
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Edward L. Pickford, a 12-year resident of Warrington, died May 9, 2009, at home. He was 80.
Born in Philadelphia, he was a former resident of the Fox Chase section of the city.
Mr. Pickford was the son of the late Edward and Elizabeth Pickford. He was the husband of Helen (Willson). Pickford.
Mr. Pickford was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War.
He had been a Philadelphia fireman for 30 years. He was a member of the League of the Sacred Heart.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Patricia Knesis, Nancy Corney, Edward, Carol Callahan and Lynne; the brother of James; and the grandfather of seven. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Donald and Robert.
Relatives and friends are invited to his funeral May 15 at 8:45 a.m. at James J. McGhee Funeral Home, Second Street Pike and Belmont Avenue, Southampton. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Robert Bellarmine Church, 856 Euclid Ave., Warrington. Interment will be held in St. John Neumann Cemetery. Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. on May 14 and from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. May 15 at the funeral home.
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