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Posted By: GUEST
28-Sep-15 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Irish Miner (John Allan Cameron)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Irish Miner (John Allan Cameron)
HERE ARE THE LYRICS TO THE IRISH MINER, AS RECORDED BY JOHN ALLAN CAMERON FROM HIS ALBUM, GET THERE BY DAWN RELEASED IN 1972
THE IRISH MINER
Written by John Allan Cameron
CHORUS: With me spade in me hand,
Shovelin' sand,
Workin' like a slave,
I'm sweatin' all day,
Savin' my pay.
Sometimes I think I'm diggin' my grave.
1. Oh, I'm tired and what's worse,
I'm workin' like a horse,
Diggin' holes all over 'Mericay.
When I'm down there in the ground,
It's too dark to see around.
My mind takes me back home from far away.
2. Then I see her in my mind:
The girl I left behind,
Sweet Mary Mercy dancin' through the heather
With her basket in her hand
Full of soda bread and jam,
She promised me that she would wait forever.
3. Oh, someday I'll go back home,
Never more to roam,
And darling Mary will belong to me.
I will take her for my wife,
And it's there I'll spend my life,
But right now over here I must be.
JOHN EDWARD O'DACRE 2015