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I never will forget one time when I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer,

Kentucky

I was a-talkin' to an old man that had known me ever since the day I was born,

and an old friend

Of the family. He says, «Son, you don’t know how lucky you are to have a nice

job like you’ve got

And don’t have to dig out a livin' from under these old hills and hollers like

me and your pappy

Used to.» When I asked him why he never had left and tried some other kind of

work, he says

«Nawsir, you just won’t do that. If ever you get this old coal dust in your

blood, you’re just

Gonna be a plain old coal miner as long as you live.» He went on to say, «It's a habit (CHUCKLE)

Sorta like chewin' tobaccer.»

Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine

And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines

It will form as a habit and seep in your soul

'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal

It’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

Where danger is double and pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

It’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

It’s a-many a man I have seen in my day

Who lived just to labor his whole life away

Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mines

I hope when I’m gone and the ages shall roll

My body will blacken and turn into coal

Then I’ll look from the door of my heavenly home

And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones

The midnight, the morning, or the middle of day

Is the same to the miner who labors away

Where the demons of death often come by surprise

One fall of the slate and you’re buried alive

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