Down by the Nine Locks Music and Words by Brian Langtry Copyright Legless Productions/Bridge Music 2010 All rights reserved Recorded by Brian Langtry Down by the nine locks we strolled hand in hand I kissed you so fondly as you turned around And a breeze from the pithead blew dust in your eye The fire from the furnace fair burned in the sky And love is the treasure so long we’ve enjoyed And my heart never tires of the moments we shared The months have a habit of turning to years Moments enhanced by the shedding of tears. Aye and down by the nine locks............................. Though all these fond years as pastures have lain Sure I know that this landscape could ne’re stay the same And where once the proud steelworks now all that remains Are the memories the like of we’ll ne’re see again. Aye and down by the nine locks................................ Down by the Nine Locks’ was written in 1979 and was featured on the Giggetty Album “The Collection” released on cassette in 1987. The title of the song is taken from the series of 9 locks in Brierley Hill, West Midlands. This Black Country Canal Way was used principally for the transportation of coal, iron and steel from the smoke billowing chimneys of the industrialised Black Country. The view from the top lock is stunning to this day but one can only dream of the long gone sight of night time furnaces and skies ‘all a blether’ (courtesy of Black Country poet Jim Wm. Jones) with gaseous colours.
Down by the Nine Locks Music and Words by Brian Langtry Copyright Legless Productions/Bridge Music 2010 All rights reserved Recorded by Brian Langtry Down by the nine locks we strolled hand in hand I kissed you so fondly as you turned around And a breeze from the pithead blew dust in your eye The fire from the furnace fair burned in the sky And love is the treasure so long we’ve enjoyed And my heart never tires of the moments we shared The months have a habit of turning to years Moments enhanced by the shedding of tears. Aye and down by the nine locks............................. Though all these fond years as pastures have lain Sure I know that this landscape could ne’re stay the same And where once the proud steelworks now all that remains Are the memories the like of we’ll ne’re see again. Aye and down by the nine locks................................ Down by the Nine Locks’ was written in 1979 and was featured on the Giggetty Album “The Collection” released on cassette in 1987. The title of the song is taken from the series of 9 locks in Brierley Hill, West Midlands. This Black Country Canal Way was used principally for the transportation of coal, iron and steel from the smoke billowing chimneys of the industrialised Black Country. The view from the top lock is stunning to this day but one can only dream of the long gone sight of night time furnaces and skies ‘all a blether’ (courtesy of Black Country poet Jim Wm. Jones) with gaseous colours.
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