Tonart: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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was a miner and his granddad was too
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There was never much question
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about what he might do
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By the age of thirteen he had laid
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And become a coal miner and a
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Verse 2
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My goal as a young lad from
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Was to follow my her
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Fairy lights and pit ponies were the
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Never thinking how hard my dad
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worked at the seam
Verse 3
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Ch. Only a miner killed under the ground
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Only a miner and one more is found
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Killed by accident no one can tell
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Your mining's all over poor miner
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farewell
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Dad worked like a Trojan his
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I'm afraid that he worked him
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self into his grave
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And my schooling was paid for
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at the cost of his lungs
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Dad was an old man at the
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age of forty one
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I never will forget how
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his face lit with pride
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When I got my diploma
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he was there by my side
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And I try to remember him as he was then
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A rare moment of joy for a
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Prince among Men
Verse 6
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Only a miner killed under the ground
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Only a miner and one more is found
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Killed by accident no one can tell
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Your mining's all over poor miner
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farewell
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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Never seemed much reward
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for a life of such toil
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But I keep his lamp burning
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And his bones rest here in this
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sunlit graveyard
Verse 8
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My dad was a miner and a
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Prince among Men
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Well loved by his wife and his
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family and friends
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And his hardship and toil gave
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me the one chance I had
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And generations of slavery died with my
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dad
Outro 1
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