Тональность: A major
Verse 1
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I'm
just a miner in a mining town. I
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dig like a mole in a hole in the ground.
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When the sun comes up till the sun goes down,
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I don't see much sun when I'm down in the ground.
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Soft coal and hard coal and lead and zinc
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and all other kinds of hard stuff.
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It's a hard livin'.
Got up this mornin' in the same ol' way,
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Drunk my hot coffee to start off my day.
My wife gimme breakfast in
her stockin' feet,
And I kissed the kids in
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bed, and then I walked
down the street.
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Just walkin' along, watchin' the sun come up, I
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was just thinkin' and wonderin'.
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Wonderin' and thinkin'.
Centralia here is a pretty little town.
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Illinois for miles around.
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Can't see too good with my eyes full of sleep
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though. I'm gonna quit mining some
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day and I'm gonna sleep about a week.
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Hard down, hard up, good
Dream myself up a lot of pretty dreams
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about pretty mine holes
and pretty mine bosses and
pretty mine owners
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and pretty women all over the place.
Most men don't talk what's
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eatin' on their minds
about different ways of dying down
But every morning we walk
along and joke
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about the mines caving in,
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the dust and the smoke.
One little wild spark of fire
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blowin' us sky high and crooked.
One little spark blowin' us
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cross -eyed and crazy.
Up to shake hands with all the
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Lord's little angels.
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Well, we knock at the
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gate and stand and laugh,
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An elevator man drops us down his shaft,
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We scatter and kneel
and crawl different places
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With fumes in our eyes and
dust on our faces,
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Gas on our stomach and
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water on our kneecap,
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Aches an d pains and rheumatism,
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All kinds of crazy pictures fly ing
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through our heads.
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Well, this spark did hit us in the number five,
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I don't know if anybody ever did come out alive.
I got carried out with a busted head,
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the lady said there's a hundred and eleven of us dead.
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Well, this ain't my first explosion,
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I come through two cave -ins an d two more fires before this.
Twenty -two dead down in
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Ohio and thirty -six I seen in
Kentucky later.
And there's a hundred and eleven here in
Sun
Trail.
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Well, it seems like the very best men go down,
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they don't come back in these mining towns.
Keep on a -wondering how things would be
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if a cave -in had come to the
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Or a big explosion of some kind was
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to go off up there in them
Wonder what sort of words and messages that
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they'd write on their slates.
Wonder if they'd hire anybody
to come down to them
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and put in some safety devices,
nine hundred dollars worth.
I think it's just about enough
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loose gas
around that
Capitol
Dome up there, though,
to make a mighty big
blow if a spark ever hits it just right.
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