Tom Shane chords by Kev Carmody
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Verse 1
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My husband,
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Shane, was a powder man
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Worked at the face in the mine
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26 years old, he knew nothing but coal
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Cut lunch and the clock in on time
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Monday through
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Sunday's a workday week
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Three shifts a day in the shops
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Saturday, a miner gives rest to his bones
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Sunday, the night shifted star
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And it's hammer and tap
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to drive the drills in
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Blast the sweat track through
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the ground
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Wedging in beams to pur
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sue that black seam
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Hammer on steel's the sole sound
Some
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Austrian duke stopped
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the bullet of lead
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Hugh shamed a man of the war
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Tom neatly packed into a
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brown haversack
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Silently strode through
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the door
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The pitheads cast wheels,
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they turned through the days
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The pit ponies a year old grew
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Till a note came one day to officially say
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I'd lost the best man that I knew
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My grief for so long was
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as black as the mine
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My children a fatherless brood
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My many time seams
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crowds into my dreams
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But I still need that cold cash for food
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Lightly by night, the gentle wind blows
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Below there they still blast the seams
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By the pores of his skin,
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you'll know a modern coal man
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No, he's widowed by the lack of her means
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You
Tom Shane
Kev Carmody
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