Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger: The Big Hewer.

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger: The Big Hewer -- (Testo: Ewan MacColl -- Musica: Peggy Seeger), 1962.

« British coalminers have many stories of an almost superhuman figure who is by a variety of names (Temple, Tempest, Torr, Towers, and in Wales, Isaac Lewis). He is also known as "The Big Hewer", or "The Great Miner". This heroic figure is to the British coalfields what Paul Bunyan was to the logging camps of the United States, what John Henry was to the Negro railway builders. This song, written in 1961 for a documentary radio ballad, incorporates a number of current mining legends told about the Big Hewer »
(Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger)

Ewan MacColl: Vocal
Peggy Seeger: Guitar

CD: Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger -- "New Briton Gazette, Vol. 2" -- (1962)