Am G Em Am G Am It's hard when folks can't get their work where they've been bred and born Am G Em Am G Am When I was young I used to think I'd bide my time 'mid the roots and the corn F Am G But I've been forced to flee the town so here's my litany Am G Em Am G Am From Hull and Halifax and Hell good Lord deliver me [Verse 2] Am G Em Am G Am When I was courting Mary Anne the auld squire he said one day Am G Em Am G Am I've got no room for wedded folk choose to wed or stay F Am G I could not leave the girl I loved so town we had to flee Am G Em Am G Am From Hull and Halifax and Hell good Lord deliver me [Verse 3] Am G Em Am G Am I've worked in Leeds and Huddersfield where I've addled honest brass Am G Em Am G Am In Bradford, Keightley, Rotherham, I've kept my bairns and lass F Am G I've travelled all three ridings round and once I've been to sea Am G Em Am G Am From Hull and Halifax and Hell good Lord deliver me [Verse 4] Am G Em Am G Am I've been through Sheffield lanes at night 'twere just like being in hell Am G Em Am G Am The furnaces thrust out tongues of flame that roared like wind o'er the fell F Am G I've sammed up coal in Barnsley pit with muck up to my knee Am G Em Am G Am From Hull and Halifax and Hell good Lord deliver me [Verse 5] Am G Em Am G Am I've seen grey fog creep o'er Leeds Brig as thick as Bastille soup Am G Em Am G Am I've been where folks are stowed away like rabbits in a coup F Am G I've seen snow fall on Bradford Beck as black as ebony Am G Em Am G Am From Hull and Halifax and Hell good Lord deliver me [Verse 6] Am G Em Am G Am But now my children all have flown to the country I'll go back Am G Em Am G Am There'll be forty miles of heathery moor 'twixt me and the coal pit slack F Am G And oft at night as I sit round the fire I'll think of the misery Am G Em Am G Am From Hull and Halifax and Hell good lord deliver me