manchester known song song written english folk singer inspired participation protest urban manchester work began career singer songwriter 1950s song standard folk musicians covered times including sung clubs open air variety occasions including downfall designated context mass deliberate act civil law having repealed men manchester sheffield protest intended secure free access england mountains led walked bridge quarry near climb hill called april young man called better known keen enthusiastic member played major organising publicity handing role disputed took shocked violent reaction met hill extremely harsh sentences handed arrested day know protest powerful long term effect leading improved access countryside shape national parks long distance starting way opened forms desired right crow act biographer view difficult extent shaped 1930s keen travelling manchester bus like thousands young unemployed people time hands integral politics simply find nature beautiful urban world ugly instead objective hoped revolution create world enjoyed sense allowed working class kind countryside bred spirit revolt groups sang songs happy hiking songs ballads radical american protest songs camps published manchester youth song singing workers slave day factories starvation pay wrote song mass setting words like mass way gain access mountains old scottish tune road isles friends sing hills folk song manchester written long inspired event important song according argues marks departure singer slogan heavy song survives wrote melody lyrics swinging melody demonstrates ability combine musical forms popular rhythms create song familiar unique like melody lyrics witty playful defiant political message wage slave monday free man sunday plays updates traditional english loved maid spot trade fair bloom lyrics suitably comical confrontation style musical theatre argues lines called said think song verses lines line chorus song names following places north wales pass road plateau manchester manchester published black white definitive collection released cooking vinyl records recording lasts minutes seconds assisted vocals wife folk singer reception influence said manchester song comes written earnest pieces prior manages pull political perspective lyrical style songwriting time happens performed song standard life cover versions performed recorded dozens folk musicians 1950s onwards including alive alive years daughter covered song album covered eponymous album covered album year performed album covered album flat earth covered national biography writes finest protest songs manchester dealt mass campaigns 1930s fought pitched battles invaded privately owned contemporary british culture describes crucial figure folk revival 1950s 1960s names manchester famous songs comedian folk singer guardian wrote young walking hills time camping stone getting bus crawling jack sang song meant word running manchester folk club sunday nights time nights lobby people come hill looking forward night beer songs nights pub sing aware people like fought hills opened knew gone jail walking mass song sung downfall designated attendance establishment figures including members parliament chief executive officers national parks leaders booklet issued commemorate years mass reproduced lyrics manchester
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