Key: Bb major•
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in the mine
I never will forget one time when I was on a little
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Visit
down home in Ebenezer,
Kentucky.
I was a- talkin' to an old man that
had known me ever
friend
Of the family. He says, "Son,
You don't know how lucky
you are to have a nice job like you've got
from under these
Old hills and hollers like
me and your pappy
he never had left and
Tried some other kind of work,
he says,
"Nawsir, you just won't do that.
If ever you get this old coal dust in your
blood, you're just
miner as long as you live."
He went on to say, "It's a habit
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(CHUCKLE)
Sorta like chewin' tobaccer."
Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine,
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And
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It will form as a habit and seep in your soul,
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is as black as the coal.
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damp as the dew,
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pleasures
Where the rain never falls and
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the sun never shines
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down in the mine.
It's a- many a man I have
seen in my day,
Who lived just to labor
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his whole life away.
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Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine,
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines.
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and the ages shall roll,
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turn into coal.
Then I'll look from the door
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of my heavenly home,
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And pity the miner a- diggin' my bones.
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or
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who labors away.
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Where the demons of death often
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you're buried alive.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Eb F Gm
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