Miner's Son feat. Luke Munday

Miner's Son
Rick Lang/Joel Schwelling

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Oh I'll never go down to that hole in the ground
Let that coal dust fill up my lungs
This miner's son

Deep down in the old coal mine you can't tell the day from night
It’s hard to see and hard to breathe while you’re digging on your knees

I was born a miner's son, Back in May of '51
Pick and Shovel in his hand, worked as hard as any man

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Never saw our daddy much, He was gone 'fore the sun comes up
Filling coal cars all day long until all his strength was gone

When he walked back through our door His weathered face, black as coal
Momma sang as she would sew and wash the coal from daddy’s clothes

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Many men died in that shaft, rocks would fall the roof collapse
All the ones that did survive they got old before their time

Soon as I was old enough, packed my backs and I ran off
Hopped a train westward bound saved me from that mining town

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