Verse
C#m F# G#7 C#m
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
Out of the hard black coalface I was torn, go down!
E
Kicked on the world and the earth split open
G#7 C#m B C#m
Crawled through a crack where the rock was broken
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
Burrowed a hole, away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 2]
C#m F# G#7 C#m
In a cradle of coal in the darkness I was laid, go down!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
Down in the dirt and darkness I was raised, go down!
E
Cut me teeth on a five-foot timber
G#7 C#m B C#m
Held up the roof with my little finger
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
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!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
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
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
Getting me steam up, hewing the seam, go down!
[Verse 4]
C#m F# G#7 C#m
I'm the son of the son of the son of a collier's son, go down!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
Coal dust runs in the veins where the blood should run, go down!
E
Five steel ribs and an iron backbone
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Teeth that can bite through rock and blackstone
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
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!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
In the pits of Durham and East Northumberland, go down!
E
Been gassed and burned and blown asunder
G#7 C#m B C#m
Buried more times than I can number
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
Getting the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 6]
C#m F# G#7 C#m
I've scrabbled and picked at the face where the roof was low, go down!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
Crawled in the seams where only a mole could go, go down!
E
In the thin-cut seams I've ripped and redded
G#7 C#m B C#m
Where even the rats are born bow-legged
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
Winning the coal, away in the hole, go down!
[Verse 7]
C#m F# G#7 C#m
I've worked in the Hutton, the Plessey, the Brockwell Seam, go down!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
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
G#7 C#m B C#m
Up to the chin in stinking water
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
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!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
Toiled in the worn-out drift mines night and day, go down!
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Where the anthracite is hard and shining
G#7 C#m B C#m
I've tried me hand at the hard-rock mining
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
I dug me a hole away in the coal, go down!
[Verse 9]
C#m F# G#7 C#m
Out of the dirt and darkness I was born, go down!
C#m G#m C#m G#7
Out of the hard black coal-face I was torn, go down!
E
Lived in the shade of the high pit heap
G#7 C#m B C#m
I'm still down there where the seams are deep
F#m C#m F#m G#7 C#m
Digging a hole, away in the coal, go down!
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