Drop Hammer from Sheffield Made by Steel Songbirds

11. Drop Hammer
© Chris While (Circuit Music Ltd)

There's a pounding in the city
And a beating in the air
And a foundry making cold steel
You can hear it everywhere

Chorus
Hear the drop hammer
Hear the drop hammer
Hear the drop hammer
All day and all of the night

The men have all gone marching
We'll see them who knows when?
So the women here will keep
the factories running until then

There's me and my three sisters
And seven cousins too
And my old mother will mind the kids
while we our duty do

We sing while we are working
That Tipperary song
Depending on each other
till the working day is done

It's the sound of the heart of Sheffield
It's the arm that's never still
And I bet my heart will stop
before that hammer ever will

There's a pounding in the city
And a beating in the air
And a foundry making cold steel
You can hear it everywhere

• Chris While
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