Misc Unsigned Bands – Jake Speed And The Freddies - The Mines (Guitar)

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My grandad worked at a West Virginia coal trap

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Deep into the role of a miner

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But he always told us life among the coal dust

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Never was the life he had in mind

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But the graveyard shift he shoveled at the mine

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All the while there dreaming of the life outside

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Now my grandad lays in a coal miner's grave

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His epitaph remains a reminder

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Oh the mines, the mines, they're all that I've known

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Been in line for the mines since the day I was born

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The mines, the mines, the mines they run deep

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Well I lay my coal black soul to sleep

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I remember well how my father used to tell

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How he'd drill and dream of the highway

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The open road, destination unknown

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Far away, far away from the mining

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But the twelve hour days he drove down the shaft

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With his highway dreams on a dead end map

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Now my father lays in a black lung grave

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His epitaph remains a reminder

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Oh the mines, the mines, they're all that I've known

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Been in line for the mines since the day I was born

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The mines, the mines, the mines they run deep

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Well I lay my coal black soul to sleep

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A heavy load has fallen on me

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Will history collapse upon all my dreams

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Now I remain down deep inside

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A coal miner trying to dig free

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My father's dreams and my grandad's dreams

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Are buried down deep inside of me

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So I refuse to die way down in the mine

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My grave will have to wait oh lord it ain't my time

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Oh the mines, the mines, they're all that I've known

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Been in line for the mines since the day I was born

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The mines, the mines, the mines they run deep

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Well I lay my coal black soul to sleep

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In the mine