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The Battle Of Holbeck Moor

from BARD COMPANY: Northern Powerhouse by BARD COMPANY

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The Battle Of Holbeck Moor

The day the Fascists came to Leeds
And faced the Yorkshire grit
Of local folk who travelled there
From every mill and pit
To face them down on Holbeck Moor
and still their twisted tongue.
That day a famous battle would be fought
And would be won.

The Leylands had been daubed in paint
Swastikas and the like
But in the pubs and factories
there growled the Yorkshire tyke
so thirty thousand residents
stepped out that fateful day
and faced old Mosley’s blackshirt’s
with a will to make them pay – hey!

The day the Fascists came to Leeds
The days the Fascists ran
From working class resistance
Was the day we proved we can
Turn back the rich and powerful
although oppressed and poor
We learned a hard fought lesson there
On the fields of Holbeck Moor
The corrupt Lord was raised up
On the flat roof of a van
But couldn’t get his words to flow
To hatch his evil plan
As the crowd hurled rocks and cobbles
And many of them sang
The rousing tones of the Red Flag
Many Fascists turned and ran

CHORUS

BREAK

Police protection couldn’t help
The brutes of the far Right
When every man and woman there
Was ready for the fight
John Hodgson raised the biggest cheer
As a well aimed cobble stone
Hit Mosely flush upon his brow
and raised a Nazi moan.

CHORUS [REPEAT X2]
We learned a hard fought lesson there
On the fields of Holbeck Moor [REPEAT X2]

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from BARD COMPANY: Northern Powerhouse, released July 28, 2022
Lyrics: Ian Whiteley
Music: John Kettle

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