Verse
Dm G A7 Dm
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
Dm Am Dm A7
Out of the hard black coalface I was torn, go down!
F
Kicked on the world and the earth split open
A7 Dm C Dm
Crawled through a crack where the rock was broken
Gm Dm Gm A7 Dm
Burrowed a hole, away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 2]
Dm G A7 Dm
In a cradle of coal in the darkness I was laid, go down!
Dm Am Dm A7
Down in the dirt and darkness I was raised, go down!
F
Cut me teeth on a five-foot timber
A7 Dm C Dm
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!
Dm Am Dm A7
And the very next day I learned the way to haul, go down!
F
On the third day worked at board and piller
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Worked on the fourth as a long-wall filler
Gm Dm Gm A7 Dm
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!
Dm Am Dm A7
Coal dust runs in the veins where the blood should run, go down!
F
Five steel ribs and an iron backbone
A7 Dm C Dm
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!
Dm Am Dm A7
In the pits of Durham and East Northumberland, go down!
F
Been gassed and burned and blown asunder
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Buried more times than I can number
Gm Dm Gm A7 Dm
Getting the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 6]
Dm G A7 Dm
I've scrabbled and picked at the face where the roof was low, go down!
Dm Am Dm A7
Crawled in the seams where only a mole could go, go down!
F
In the thin-cut seams I've ripped and redded
A7 Dm C Dm
Where even the rats are born bow-legged
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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!
Dm Am Dm A7
The Bensham, the Busty, the Beaumont, the Marshall Green, go down!
F
I've lain on me back in the old three-quarter
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Up to the chin in stinking water
Gm Dm Gm A7 Dm
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!
Dm Am Dm A7
Toiled in the worn-out drift mines night and day, go down!
F
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]
Dm G A7 Dm
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
Dm Am Dm A7
Out of the hard black coal-face I was torn, go down!
F
Lived in the shade of the high pit heap
A7 Dm C Dm
I'm still down there where the seams are deep
Gm Dm Gm A7 Dm
Digging a hole, away in the coal, go down!
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