A song from the 1984 miners strike by Mal Finch
A group of women sing to police at the Hatfield Main picket line in Here We Go (Richard Hines & Banner Film and Television, 1985)
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
We don't need Government approval for anything we do
We don't need their permission to have a point of view
We don't need anyone to tell us what to think or say
We've strength enough and wisdom of our own to go our own way
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
They talk about statistics, about the price of coal
The price is our communities dying on the dole
In fighting for our future we found ways to organise
Where womens liberation failed to move, this strike has mobilised
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
Ours is a unity that threats can never breach
Ours an education books and schools could never teach
We face the taunts and the violence of Thatcher's thugs in blue
When you're fighting for survival you've got nothing, nothing left to lose
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
We don't need Government approval for anything we do
We don't need their permission to have a point of view
We don't need anyone to tell us what to think or say
We've strength enough and wisdom of our own to go our own way
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
They talk about statistics, about the price of coal
The price is our communities dying on the dole
In fighting for our future we found ways to organise
Where womens liberation failed to move, this strike has mobilised
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
Ours is a unity that threats can never breach
Ours an education books and schools could never teach
We face the taunts and the violence of Thatcher's thugs in blue
When you're fighting for survival you've got nothing, nothing left to lose
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with our men
Who work the nation's mines,
United by the struggle,
United by the past,
And it's - Here we go! Here we go!
For the women of the working class."
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