| I remember the ways in the bygone days
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| When we were in our prime
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| How us and John L. give the old man hell
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| Down in the Blue Diamond Mine
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| Well the whistle blowed and the rooster crowed
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| Two hours before daylight
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| When a man done his best and he earned his good rest
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| Made seventeen dollars a night
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| In the mines, in the mines
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| In the Blue Diamond Mines
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| I worked my life away
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| In the mines, in the mines
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| In the Blue Diamond Mines
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| Oh fall on your knees and pray
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| You old black gold, you’ve taken my lungs
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| And your dust has darkened my home
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| And now that we’re old, you’re turning your back
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| Where else can an old miner go?
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| Well it’s Algomer Block and it’s Big Leather Woods
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| And now it’s Blue Diamond too
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| Well the pits are all closed and it’s get another job
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| What else can an old miner do
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| In the mines, in the mines
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| In the Blue Diamond Mines
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| I worked my life away
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| In the mines, in the mines
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| In the Blue Diamond Mines
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| Oh fall on your knees and pray
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| John L. had a dream but it’s broken it seems
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| Mining has had it’s day
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| But they’re stripping off my mountain top
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| And they pay me eight dollars a day
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| And I get a little poke of welfare meal
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| A little poke of welfare flour
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| But I tell ya right now you won’t qualify
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| 'Til you work for a quarter an hour
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| In the mines, in the mines
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| In the Blue Diamond Mines
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| I worked my life away
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| In the mines, in the mines
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| In the Blue Diamond Mines
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| Oh fall on your knees and pray |