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Basically we are all alone in the centre  
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Of a pickaxe mine 
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Black lung stings as the pickaxe swings 
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As the void of the mine closes in 
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The Devil Came and the Angels sang 
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A Song of the Holy Ghost 
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Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold 
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Like the dust I spit from my mouth 
  

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Wooo oooo oooo  
  

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Remember the night with the barroom fight 
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Where I killed all of my best friends 
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We gambled it away with the whiskey open keg 

And we never saw it again 

Well I had a wife that I met back in High school 
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Her name was Lyla-Jean 
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We saved away to escape some place 

On a local miner's minor pay 
  

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Wooo oooo oooo  
  

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We saved so long the fall came and gone 
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At Least 27 times 
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It fell through the floorboards  

Into deep dark darkness 

And we never saw it again 

West Virginia's home and that's  

Where we're staying 
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To the blade of the bible hymn 
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Jesus says we're wicked so we just keep on pickin' 
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At the scab of the open mine 
  

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Wooo oooo oooo