[00:00.00] 作曲 : David Ashley Longdon
[00:19.20]Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
[00:20.79]Extract from Sub Commissioner’s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
[00:27.30]“His name is Godfrey Fletcher
[00:29.01]Eleven years old
[00:29.40]Worked these pits for nearly three years
[00:30.99]Does not know the alphabet
[00:34.41]Cannot read in the least”
[00:35.82]The pit shall keep him body and soul
[00:55.11]But better that than going to school
[01:01.98]Or ploughing the field
[01:02.37]Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist’s sermon down here
[01:24.69]In the awesome stillness
[01:26.82]of the deep black
[01:27.15]A Boy in Darkness
[02:04.89]The seam they work is more than a yard
[02:11.25]The headway here is nearly four feet
[02:15.24]He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
[02:23.43]Deep down here in the dry and the heat
[04:58.44]A Boy in Darkness
[04:58.80]Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
[05:03.45]Part 3: Present Times
[05:03.93]Once upon a time
[05:04.29]A secret shared
[05:28.41]Threatened not to breathe a word
[05:32.58]To a living soul
[05:39.63]Especially mother...
[05:40.35]He was just a boy
[05:44.07]But even though
[05:44.34]It wasn’t the way it’s supposed to go
[05:46.68]Needed a father
[05:56.82]Not this hunter
[05:57.18]To speak of the unspeakable
[05:58.08]Takes guts and nerve
[06:00.87]It’s going to disturb
[06:02.58]He can’t bring himself to say the words
[06:09.93]Misplaced blind faith
[06:12.24]In church and state
[06:15.63]Tied up in too much red tape
[06:18.69]If help comes, pray not too late
[06:25.32]We face ourselves
[06:29.85]Look long and hard
[06:30.27]Make the difference
[06:31.38]A safer place
[06:33.51]But most of all
[06:34.17]Don’t be afraid
[06:36.75]To shine
[06:36.90]Light
[06:37.02]Into the dark
[06:37.38]A Boy in Darkness