[ti:Down In The Mine]
[ar:Dierks Bentley]
[al:Up On The Ridge]
[t_time:(05:01)]
[00:00.00]Dierks Bentley - Down In The Mine
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[00:12.01]Here in Harlan County, the choices are few
[00:19.43]To keep food on the table and the babies in shoes
[00:26.90]You can grow marijuana way back in the pines
[00:34.89]Or work for the man down in the mine
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[00:45.72]You never forget your first day in the hole
[00:52.90]There's a pit in your stomach and your mouth's full of coal
[01:01.03]There's no turning back once you make up your mind
[01:07.79]As the cart rattles on down in the mine
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[01:17.64]Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud
[01:29.67]And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs
[01:42.27]Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines
[01:54.84]Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave
[02:01.07]Way down in the mine
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[02:08.69]Well the old timers talk but you just don't believe
[02:16.35]It can all go to hell at two thousand feet
[02:24.06]Life sways in the balance of nature and time
[02:31.65]And fate has no mercy down in the mine
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[03:07.84]The news spreads like fire and burned through those hills
[03:15.77]Hopes were held high but five men got killed
[03:22.83]On the wings of canaries, your soul surely flies
[03:30.15]While your bones spend eternity down in the mine
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[03:40.28]Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud
[03:52.42]And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs
[04:04.89]Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines
[04:17.30]Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave
[04:23.54]Way down in the mine
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[04:30.94]So take a flask from your crib case and a pull of moonshine
[04:41.71]And say a prayer for them boys down in the mine
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