Key: G major•
Verse 1
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Modern day workers are
paid every week,
it's a usual thing.
But several years back
around the coal mines
when I was a kid,
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That is when it was paid.
A lot of times I've heard one
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how many days did you work this half?
Of course he was meanin' half a month
for payday.
Sometime out of half a month
could seem to be half a year,
that payday come too
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slow.
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Verse 2
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she told me about 14 years ago
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My mama,
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she told me just about 14 years ago
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cause payday come too slow.
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Then my papa said, son,
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I've been a miner for a long,
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long time.
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Yeah, my papa said, look here son,
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I've been a miner for a long, long time
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just as slow as Christmas
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time
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But then I headed for the mines
look here, I'm big and I'm mean
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I can roll night and day
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and I ain't never got tired
and said, boy you hard
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That's where I made my big mistake
So they put me outside on the tipple,
in the heat and the rain and
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the snow
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Outside working on that tipple,
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And the very first thing that I learned,
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is payday just come too slow.
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Well, my sweet baby told me,
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said, Papa,
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Yeah, my sweet baby told me,
said, Papa,
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there was no payday at all.
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So just about all I've done in
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14 years or so.
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fourteen years or so
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an d hang around
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of getting soaking wet
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I'm gonna leave here in this morning
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And just to prove that I'm gone
And boy, that's a long way off
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what made that poor boy go
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that payday come too slow
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TunerE A D G B E
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