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Verse 1
a coal miner's wife.
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Now she may be unsung,
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Her hours of labor are long,
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but she faces her duty with spirit.
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She dreads no task,
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an d she meets her end less
My mother was a miner's wife,
and I've seen these hard
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-working women
do everything mentioned in this song,
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I wish I was capable of paying
a much more proper tribute
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to these gal lant ladies,
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a tribute that the coal miner's wife certainly
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deserves.
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She's up every
mornin' for daybreak
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When the coal oil lamp's light is dim
And she's fixin' breakfast for him
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She's fixin' breakfast for him
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Now this is the life of
a coal miner's wife,
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she knits and she sews,
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for they are two of a kind,
hard working people,
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they are two of a kind.
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She fills up her man's dinner bucket
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Far around about the middle of day
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Though it's taters and meat
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He'll keep up his strength that way
And she knows it
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He'll keep up his strength that way.
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Now this is the life of a
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When her man is gone to the mine
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she knits, she sews
For they are two of a kind
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Hard -working people,
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they're two of a kind
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She makes up the bed, does the dishes,
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an d cleans house the
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she will scrub every room.
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Then she fixes supper for her man,
cause he'll be hungry,
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she'll have supper fixed for her man.
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Now this is the life of
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when her man is gone to the mine.
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she knits an d she sews,
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they're two of a kind.
On Sunday, they both go to meetin'
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and thank him who watches above.
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for their work is hard,
coal miner's wife
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she knits, she sews
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