You Won't Get Me Down In Your Mines

Colin Wilkie

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You won't get me down on the ground in your mines
Away from the trees and the flowers so fine
Down in the dark where the sun never shines
No, you won't get me down in your mines.

They dig for the coal for the most of their lives
Away from their children, away from their wives
To make others rich in the heat and the dark
But who's going to care when they're too old to work?

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There's many a miner has died underground
Died all alone when the roof tumbled down
Trapped in the dark underneath the great beams
And choked out his life in the gas-filled coal seams.

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I'll work in your factory, I'll work on your farms
Dig roads till the muscles stand out of me arms
I've fought in your army, I've been out to sea
But by Christ you won't make a coal-miner of me.

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