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Thread #6281   Message #36918
Posted By: Barbara Shaw
03-Sep-98 - 12:47 PM
Thread Name: Strike Songs for a Manager
Subject: Lyr Add: MINER'S REFRAIN (G Welch & D Rawlings)^^
Thanks everyone, for all the comments and songs. I passed a few around with office e-mail, and the funny ones got a few laughs, which are few and far between lately.

Speaking of coal-miner songs brought this to mind. A grandfather I never met died of black lung from the mines of Arizona, so I particularly relate to them, and do see the connection with the cubicle I spend my time in. Gillian Welch is incredible. This is from her new album "Hell among the Yearlings."

MINER'S REFRAIN
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
In the black dust towns of East Tennessee
All the work's about the same
You may not go to a job in the ground
But you'll learn the miner's refrain.

(Chorus)
I'm down in a hole; I'm down in a hole
Down in a deep, dark hole.

Well, you search the rain for the silver cloud
And you wait on days of gold
When you're pitched to the bottom and the dirt comes down
You'll cry, "So cold, so cold."

There's something good in a worried song
For the trouble in your soul
'Cause a worried man's been a long way down
Down in a deep dark hole.
^^