Misc Originals – Alan Lazarus - The Ballad Of Mickey Brennen (Guitar)

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Down in the Illawarra, and south of Sydney town

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Up in the Kembla village, the day-shift men went down.

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Young Mickey Brennan joined them on a July winter day,

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Just fours days on the job, workin' for a wheelers pay.

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All went good in the early half, his horse was pullin' true,

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He stepped into the crib-room, to have a well-earned brew.

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At two o'clock the gallery shook, and then the roof fell in,

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And nineteen year old Mickey fell, ne'er to rise again.

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Ninety six died on the day in nineteen zero two,

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The explosion, smoke and fire, spared none 'cept a few.

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Ninety five remains brought out, their souls were given sleep.

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But Mickey Brennan wasn't found, he's layin' far too deep.

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The Kembla mine went workin' on, another three score years,

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But every miner goin' down could scarce conceal his fears.

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For behind the bricked up portals, of the old parts of the pit,

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In the quiet dark there faintly sounds a skip rail bein' hit.

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'Tis said it's Mickey Brennan, trying to find his way outside,

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To the Windy Gully graveyard, with his mates there to reside.

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Some say that they have seen him, after the sun sets in the west,

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Wan - derin' 'round MountMembla town to find a place to rest.

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Wan - derin' 'round MountMembla town to find a place to rest.