Key: Bb minor•
Verse 1
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Out of the dirt and darkness I was born,
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go down.
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Out of the hard black coal face I was torn,
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Crawled through a crack
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where the rock was broken.
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Burrowed a hole away in the coal,
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go down.
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In a cradle of coal
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in the darkness I was laid
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Go down, down in the dirt
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and darkness I was raised
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Go down, cut me teeth
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Held at the roof with me
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little finger
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Started me time away in the mine
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go down.
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On the day that I was born,
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I was six foot tall, go down.
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And the very nex t day
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I learned the way to hoe,
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go down.
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On the third day worked at
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worked on the fourth as
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a longwall filler,
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go down.
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I'm the son of the son
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of the son of a collier's son,
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go down.
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Coal dust flows in the veins
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where the blood should run,
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go down.
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teeth that can bite through
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rock and black,
stonework in me time,
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away in the mine,
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go down.
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Three hundred years I
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hewed at the coal by hand
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Go down, in the pits of Durham
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and East Northumberland
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Go down, been gassed and
burned and flown
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Asunder, buried more times
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than I can number
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Getting the coal away in the hole
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Go down, I've scrabbled
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and picked at the face
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Go down! Crawl
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in the seams
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where only a mole could go
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Go down!
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In the thin -cut seams of
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Where even the rats are born
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Bow legged, winning the coal
Away in the hole
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Go down!
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the Brockwell Seam
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Go down! The Bencham, the Busty,
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the Beaumont, the Marshall Green
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Go down! I've lain on me back
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Up to the chin in stinkin' water,
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Hewin' the coal away in the hole,
go down.
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In the northern pits I've
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sweated and earned me pay,
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Toiled in the worn -out drift mines
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night and day, go down.
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I've tried me hand at the hard rock mining,
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I dug me a hole away in the cold,
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go down
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I was born, go down
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Out of the hard black coal face
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I was torn, go down
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I'm still down there
Where the seams are deep,
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I'm digging a hole away in the cold,
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go down
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You
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