"Byker Hill" is a traditional English folk song about coal miners, Roud 3488, that has been performed by many contemporary acts. There are at least three different tunes to which the song is sung.
Byker Hill is in the east end of Newcastle, as is the adjoining district of Walker, also mentioned in the song.
The earliest versions of this song use the title "Walker Pits" as in the publication Rhymes of Northern Bards (1812) where it is song number 36. It was included under that title in A. L. Lloyd's collection "Come All Ye Bold Miners".
Notable versions of "Byker Hill"
Martin Carthy on his 1967 album Byker Hill
Dave Swarbrick on Swarbrick (1976)
Tempest - on Shapeshifter, re-released on Prime Cuts
Dave Van Ronk - on Going Back To Brooklyn (contemporary rewrite titled "Luang Prabang")
Patrick Sky - on Songs That Made America Famous (Dave Van Ronk's "Luang Prabang")
The Barely Works - on The Big Beat
Australian Chamber Orchestra with Danny Spooner, Mike Kerin & Richard Tognetti
The Imagined Village
The Cottars - on Forerunner
The Young Tradition - on both their self-titled album and Oberlin 1968
Sportive Tricks - on their album Old Dogs New Tricks
Pete Coe
Bellowhead on Broadside
Philip Wilby
Boiled in Lead, on the 1985 album BOiLeD iN lEaD
Brian Johnson, on the 2002 album From Tyne to Tweed - The Northumbria Anthology
Chanticleer, on The Anniversary Album
Steve Goodman - Live at University of Illinois, November 10, 1969
The Lawrence Arms (Dave Van Ronk's "Luang Prabang")
The Longest Johns - Byker Hill (2023)