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The Coalminer's Song
Reg Meuross
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Meet me on top of the hill John
Meet me with bottles and stones
Finish your drink in the bar John
And rally your indolent bones
The pits and our livelihoods long gone
They're wanting no more of our coal
So finish your drink in the bar John
And save your miserable soul
Look at old Tom in the corner
He knows every ghost in this town
I don't want to end up like Tom
Stuck in yesterday
Dead but still above ground
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The valley is scarred by our work John
Damage inflicted in vain
But what can we show for our work John
But poverty, hardship and pain
The pits like some terrible wound now
Carved in the face of the earth
A whole year has gone since the mine was shut down
And the quality of life has got worse
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So finish your drink in the bar John
Though we may be a little bit tight
We'll go to the top of the hill John
And we'll put this wicked world right
The daffodils bloom on the slag heaps
But their beauty is lost on this man
I see old Mother Jenkins
The blood on her fingernails
Scratching the coal from the land
Meet me on top of the hill John
Meet me with bottles and stones
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