Songs and rhymes of a lead miner

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"Songs and rhymes of a lead miner" by Thomas Grierson Gracie is a collection of poems and songs written in the early 20th century. The volume evokes the work, landscape, and community life of Wanlockhead and the Lowther Hills, told in Scots dialect and plainspoken English. It mingles nature sketches, mining-life vignettes, village customs, and music-making with elegies and patriotic verses shaped by the Great War. Expect intimate local color, moral reflections, and occasional humor from a miner-musician’s point of view. The opening of the collection begins with a candid preface in which the author recounts a hard childhood in Wanlockhead, years as a lead and coal miner, his love of the fiddle, and his turn to rhyming during wartime, stressing that he writes for ordinary folk and thanking local editors and friends.