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From Breathing Bad Air
02:34
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For forty-two years
Is a mighty long time
I labored untold
Down in a coal mine
Down in a deep hole
Where the bright lights did glow
Back in a dark room
A-spadin' up coal.
My bones they did ache me
My kneecaps got bad
Down on a hard rock
On a set of knee pads
The motors were shifting
I got sand in my hair
Both lungs were broke down
From breathing bad air.
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2. |
Bituminous
03:42
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The Union's got me down
On my back again
They're making me choose between
Work and my friends
I cannot afford this strike
Though it's just two kids and my wife
I don't know where to go
I've got nowhere to go
My strength's enough
My shoulders broad
To bear the earth's oldest clods
From the secrets she tries
To hide them beneath
Her underside, in the deepest seams
Each day I go to work
I pray for disaster
Only in death can we deter this hurt
Only then will the walls see me as friend
When all will use me as a sign
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Old Timers
03:17
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Gamble lays underneath the fall
Of roof and sides
Work quickly, softer grow his pleas
Increased fall frequency
No, please don't go, left me alone
Is Stevens here, his strength can hold
Seven hours underground
Old timers on our backs
Cut off from the main shaft
Foul air on our tracks
The water rose, when we broke in
The old workings, flooded this pit
Lamps gone out
I can taste, dirt in my mouth
Eyes won't adjust, they've been forced shut
Give my wife my love
Timber and stones, another comes
Withers is hurt, dig me out
Underground oh muffled sounds
Legs won't move no they're earth bound
They're breaking through, I'm in the roof
Filled up with dirt, body bruised
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4. |
Pioneers
05:15
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Oh we are, pioneers and we’ve got no fears
Fraterville, Tennessee, I was just three months and a week
My pa breathed in bad air now he’s gone thats the story
I grew up with caught my curiosity
A pioneer holds nothing back
I am young I think I’ll move out west
Oh, Oh
Bring out those monsters of machine
Fire up that bucket wheel, we’ve found a shallow seam
So let’s strip this earth and field
To find, our next venture
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5. |
LaCygne
05:02
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Brothers Scammon
Let’s move to Kansas
Cherokee County
Doubt what we’re doing
We’ll show you yet
Forty loads of coal
Underground principle
Red piles of fools gold make
Water and earth go
I’ve been ordered to go back
Repair the land I’ve left
Turn those strip mines into a field
Smooth over ditches so I can stand
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Afterdamp
04:25
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I don't want to live in this state anymore
Got the union on my back, better sneak me out the door
oh, oh
oh, oh
Riding in the back seats of all my friends cars
Looking out the back door, breathing in exhaust
oh, oh
oh, oh
Now I’ve seen visions I’ve seen them in the stones
In my mother's kitchen no black on the stove
oh, oh
oh, oh
Is this my house
Is this our house
Is this my house
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Anthracite
04:53
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I don’t think I’ll be home tonight, I’ve grown accustomed
To a hole dug out from the inside, and I can’t sleep in a bed
All the muscles in my eyes will never rest
Like a sick I’ve got to wait out of my body, this seam is a fever
I kind of thought you’d be gone by now but you’re still here,
I can see ya, I can feel us
Should’ve picked somebody with a heart of gold,
Turns out mine’s made out of coal
Don’t let me keep you from the whole that you deserved
I won’t blame you for leaving me underground, in the dirt
Yet you still stayed and supported me, you made that choice
a decision to love me like they said Jesus Christ would do for us
oh
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Lantern
05:10
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I wake slowly, drag my body onto my feet
But the longer I try to stay here
The more I’m reminded by the dark frigid air
That I am stuck
Down below the earth’s cold dead crust
Little bird, don't fly away
Your yellow feathers they light like the day
I don't want to cause you trouble
I just want you to stay with me through the night
Until the day breaks.
And the morning sun sings praises over us
My face is black as night today
I can't see my fingers for the dark in my way
But dear you are my hope and the reason
I can stay down here for eight hours each day
You are my lantern
My darling wife you are my light
And if the walls should come caving in
Don’t fret cause I’ll see you soon with our Lord
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