For most of my life

Tryin to raise two daughters and support a lovin wife

But this awful way of livin’ has really got me down

And I’ve had to face the fact boys that I’ll never leave this town

Well my lungs are black as coal and my heart is cold as ice

And I know that workin in the mines you pay an awful price

But I’ll keep on workin here, work my finger to the bone

And the best that I can hope for is that I won’t have to die alone

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Well these coal mine blues I just can’t lose in my mind

Well I’ve had them so long the mine’s become my home and my whole life

Oh oh oh got the coal mine blues

Well the pay’s not that good in the cold dark dingy hole

You spend all your time just thinkin about how you will go

Will the walls cave in around you will you just run out of time

Will disease eat you to the bone down in the cold dark mine

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Well these coal mine blues…

Repeat chorus…end