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Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
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Out of the hard black coalface I was torn, go down!
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Kicked on the world and the earth split open
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Crawled through a crack where the rock was broken
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Burrowed a hole, away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 2]
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In a cradle of coal in the darkness I was laid, go down!
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Down in the dirt and darkness I was raised, go down!
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Cut me teeth on a five-foot timber
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Held up the roof with my little finger
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Started me time away in the mine, go down!
[Verse 3]
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On the day that I was born I was six feet tall, go down!
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And the very next day I learned the way to haul, go down!
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On the third day worked at board and piller
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Worked on the fourth as a long-wall filler
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Getting me steam up, hewing the seam, go down!
[Verse 4]
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I'm the son of the son of the son of a collier's son, go down!
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Coal dust runs in the veins where the blood should run, go down!
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Five steel ribs and an iron backbone
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Teeth that can bite through rock and blackstone
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Working me time, away in the mine, go down!
[Verse 5]
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Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand, go down!
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In the pits of Durham and East Northumberland, go down!
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Been gassed and burned and blown asunder
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Buried more times than I can number
Am Em Am B7 Em
Getting the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 6]
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I've scrabbled and picked at the face where the roof was low, go down!
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Crawled in the seams where only a mole could go, go down!
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In the thin-cut seams I've ripped and redded
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Where even the rats are born bow-legged
Am Em Am B7 Em
Winning the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 7]
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I've worked in the Hutton, the Plessey, the Brockwell Seam, go down!
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The Bensham, the Busty, the Beaumont, the Marshall Green, go down!
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I've lain on me back in the old three-quarter
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Up to the chin in stinking water
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Hewing the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 8]
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In the northern pits I've sweated and earned me pay, go down!
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Toiled in the worn-out drift mines night and day, go down!
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Where the anthracite is hard and shining
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I've tried me hand at the hard-rock mining
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I dug me a hole away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 9]
Em A B7 Em
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
Em Bm Em B7
Out of the hard black coal-face I was torn, go down!
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Lived in the shade of the high pit heap
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I'm still down there where the seams are deep
Am Em Am B7 Em
Digging a hole, away in the coal, go down!
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