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YOU WON'T GET ME DOWN IN YOUR MINE (Colin Wilkie) You won't get me down underground in your mine Away from the trees and the flowers so fine Down in the dark where the sun never shines You won't get me down in your mines. They dig for the coal for the most of their lives Away from the children, away from their wives To make others rich, in the heat and the dark But who's going to care when they're too old to work? There's many a miner who died underground Died all alone when the roof tumbled down Trapped in the dark underneath the great beams And choked out his life in the gas-filled coal seams I'll work in your factory, I'll work on your farm Dig roads till the muscles stand out on me arm I've fought in your army, I've been out to sea But by Christ, you won't make a coal-miner of me. The first verse is repeated as a chorus. Transcribed from the 1973 Leader LP "Songs of a Changing World" (Jon Raven/Nic J ones/Tony Rose), sung unaccompanied by Jones, so you'll have to work out "chords " for yourself! Words and music were written by Colin Wilkie (publisher, Feldman ), apparantly in response to a mining disaster that occurred in Germany in 1963. Tony Ireland says in his notes on the CD 'Lest We Forget', that Colin wrote it about a mining accident in Kent in 1963. Hard to say for certain whether the acc ident was in Germany or Kent. @disaster @mining filename[ DOWNMINE MD |
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