Working Down A Diamond Mine chords by ROBERT CALVERT
Verse 1
G
Thank you.
C
Not many people know this,
but I was actually born in
South
Africa,
which is why...
G
You know that, do you?
C
You should keep quiet about it, please.
It's a very unfashionable place to have
been born these days, actually.
So we're going to do a piece
of music now
for all those people who read
The
Guardian on our vegetarians.
And...
It's a song about
South
Africa,
G
C
or at least an aspect of
South
African life.
This is a new song.
G
It isn't released yet on a record.
C
it will be released with boring regularity on records
for about the next 25 years and I'll have
to be taking lawsuits against them all.
Does anybody know that?
G
I'm actually taking out
C
five ritzes at moment.
It's really good fun, you know,
it's become my hobby actually.
G
I beg your pardon?
C
Go for it.
Does that mean the same as do it,
does it?
Thank you.
This about working down a
C
diamond mine
C
Am
He got a passport for the town
C
And left his folks behind
C
He told them he was going down
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Working down a diamond mine
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C
He was just another
C
Zulu boy
Dm
C
Am
Escaping from his tribe
C
But there's no sun and
C
there's no joy
G
Am
Down the diamond mine
F
C
His ma told him not to go down
on the diamond mine
Skin of a diamond mine
Am
Don't look to the back
G
C
G
if your skin is black
C
C
Your job is on the line
G
C
You'll never know
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C
the precious star
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Working down a diamond mine
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C
Am
C
Dm
C
Stuck and damp and there's no air
The foreman is a swine
Dust in your lungs, dust everywhere
F
G
Am
C
Down a diamond mine
Am
C
Cutting rocks and hanging stones
Am
Looking for a sign
C
You never own a precious stone
G
Am
By walking down a diamond mine
F
C
Working down a diamond line
Working down a diamond line
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C
G
Don't turn back if
your skin is black
C
G
C
You'll drown yourself alive
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C
G
F
You'll never own a precious star
C
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Working down a diamond line
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Dm
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Ladies in their theater box,
in their bourbon rucks
Dm
C
Never know what life it sets,
G
G
C
Am
drilling
F
C
The diamond is a girl's best friend
F
C
In flation doesn't touch
Dm
F
C
The locks are different,
Am
the funds are big
G
C
G
They're never worth
Am
F
their much
Fm
C
C
Well, I've been dialing high
Dm
C
Working down a time of mine
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Fm
Don't talk back in this nitty -gritty world
C
C
Fm
When your job is on the line
C
G
C
You'll never own a
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precious stone
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Working down a diamond mine
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Working down a diamond mine
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Working down a diamond
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C
mine
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Working down a diamond mine
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Working down a line
Outro 1
Working down a diamond mine
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Working Down A Diamond Mine
Robert Calvert
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