| Poor hardworking miners, their troubles are great
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| So often while working, they meet a sad fate
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| Killed by some accident, there’s no one to tell
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| Their mining’s all over, poor miner farewell
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| Only a miner, killed under the ground
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| Only a miner, but one more is gone
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| Only a miner, but one more is gone
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| Leaving his wife and three children alone
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| Leaving his little one out on the street
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| Tired and hungry with nothing to eat
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| Momma is jobless and papa is dead
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| They’s coal miners' children, begging for bread
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| Only a miner, killed under the ground
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| Only a miner, but one more is gone
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| Only a miner, but one more is gone
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| Leaving his wife and four children alone
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| When I’m in Kentucky, so often I’ll meet
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| Coal miners' children out on the street
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| What are you doing, to them I have said
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| We’re coal miners’s children, begging for bread
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| Only a miner, killed under the ground
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| Only a miner, but one more is gone
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| Only a miner, but one more is gone
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| Leaving his wife and four children alone
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| Their mining’s all over
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| Coal miner farewell |