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Steeleye Span
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It's in the evening after dark
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When the blackleg miner creeps to work,
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With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt,
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There goes the blackleg miner.
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Well, he grabs his duds and down he goes,
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To hew the coal that lies below,
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There's not a woman in this town row
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Will look at the blackleg miner.
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Oh, Delaval is a terrible place,
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They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face,
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And around the heaps they run a footrace
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To catch the blackleg miner.
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And even down near the Seghill mine,
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Across the way they stretch a line
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To catch the throat, to break the spine
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Of the dirty blackleg miner.
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They grabbed his duds, his picks as well,
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And they hoy them down the pit of hell,
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Down you go, we pay you well,
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You dirty blackleg miner.
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It's in the evening after dark
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That the blackleg miner creeps to work,
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With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt,
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There goes the blackleg miner.
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So join the union while you may,
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Don't wait 'til your dying day
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For that may not be far away,
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You dirty blackleg miner.
Steeleye Span - 'Gaudete' (Live)
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