Ricky Skaggs – Coal Minin Man (Guitar)

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Daylight or dark in rain or shine. It don't much matter down in the mine, where

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the tunnels deep Lord the air gets thin thats the way of life for the minin man

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His lungs are weak, his back is gone. His sixty years are plainly shown.  Lived

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half his life down in the ground. A cold steel hammer rings a mournful sound.

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Daylight or dark in rain or shine. It don't much matter down in the mine, where

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the tunnels deep Lord the air gets thin thats the way of life for the minin man

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I'll tell you son he said to me there's just two things I pray to see. That the

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day my Savior calls me home, and to see my son stop minin' coal

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Oh daddy dear I'll tell you true there's nothing else for me to do, but to make

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my livin' underneath this land, and live and die a coal minin' man

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Daylight or dark in rain or shine. It don't much matter down in the mine, where

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the tunnels deep Lord the air gets thin thats the way of life for the minin man

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I'll make my livin' underneath this land, and die like you a coal minin' man.