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BLACK LUNG AND ALCOHOL

Take a ride through the mines

See the place that I call home

In the hills coal miners gave it all

To black lung and alcohol

In the dark is all we've ever known

Brothers marching on towards death and broken bones

John is gone crushed inside

Left behind the ones he loved

To the church...hell to the bar

Leave the bottle and light my dart

In the dark is all we've ever known

Brothers marching on towards death and broken bones

Just fifty-five turned ninety-nine

Thanks to mining all that coal

A defeated man gave it all

To black lung and alcohol

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