Verse
Bm E F#7 Bm
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
Out of the hard black coalface I was torn, go down!
D
Kicked on the world and the earth split open
F#7 Bm A Bm
Crawled through a crack where the rock was broken
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Burrowed a hole, away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 2]
Bm E F#7 Bm
In a cradle of coal in the darkness I was laid, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
Down in the dirt and darkness I was raised, go down!
D
Cut me teeth on a five-foot timber
F#7 Bm A Bm
Held up the roof with my little finger
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Started me time away in the mine, go down!
[Verse 3]
Bm E F#7 Bm
On the day that I was born I was six feet tall, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
And the very next day I learned the way to haul, go down!
D
On the third day worked at board and piller
F#7 Bm A Bm
Worked on the fourth as a long-wall filler
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Getting me steam up, hewing the seam, go down!
[Verse 4]
Bm E F#7 Bm
I'm the son of the son of the son of a collier's son, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
Coal dust runs in the veins where the blood should run, go down!
D
Five steel ribs and an iron backbone
F#7 Bm A Bm
Teeth that can bite through rock and blackstone
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Working me time, away in the mine, go down!
[Verse 5]
Bm E F#7 Bm
Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
In the pits of Durham and East Northumberland, go down!
D
Been gassed and burned and blown asunder
F#7 Bm A Bm
Buried more times than I can number
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Getting the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 6]
Bm E F#7 Bm
I've scrabbled and picked at the face where the roof was low, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
Crawled in the seams where only a mole could go, go down!
D
In the thin-cut seams I've ripped and redded
F#7 Bm A Bm
Where even the rats are born bow-legged
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Winning the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 7]
Bm E F#7 Bm
I've worked in the Hutton, the Plessey, the Brockwell Seam, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
The Bensham, the Busty, the Beaumont, the Marshall Green, go down!
D
I've lain on me back in the old three-quarter
F#7 Bm A Bm
Up to the chin in stinking water
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Hewing the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 8]
Bm E F#7 Bm
In the northern pits I've sweated and earned me pay, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
Toiled in the worn-out drift mines night and day, go down!
D
Where the anthracite is hard and shining
F#7 Bm A Bm
I've tried me hand at the hard-rock mining
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
I dug me a hole away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 9]
Bm E F#7 Bm
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
Bm F#m Bm F#7
Out of the hard black coal-face I was torn, go down!
D
Lived in the shade of the high pit heap
F#7 Bm A Bm
I'm still down there where the seams are deep
Em Bm Em F#7 Bm
Digging a hole, away in the coal, go down!
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