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Uncle Tupelo
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come, all you coalminers
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wherever you may be
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and listen to the story
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that I relate to thee
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my name is nothing extra
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but the truth to you I tell
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I am a coalminer
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and I'm sure I wish you well
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I was born in old Kentucky
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in a coal camp, born and bred
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I know about old beans
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bulldog gravy and cornbread
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I know how the miners work and slave
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in the coalmines every day
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for a dollar in the company store
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for that is all they pay
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mining is the most dangerous work
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in our land today
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plenty of dirty, slaving work
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for very little pay
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coalminers, won't you wake up
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and open your eyes and see
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what this dirty capitalist system
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has done to you and me
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dear miners, they will slave you
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until you can't work no more
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and what will you get for your laborbut a dollar in the company store
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a tumbledown shack to live in
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snow and rain pouring through the topand you have to pay the company rentand your payments will never stop
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they take our very lifeblood
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they take our children's lives
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take fathers away from children
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take husbands away from wivescoalminers, won't you organize
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wherever you may be
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and make this a land of freedom
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for workers, like you and me
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I am a coalminer
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and I'm sure I wish you well
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let's sink this capitalist system
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to the darkest pits of hell
Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner
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