| It happened an hour ago
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| Way down in this tunnel of coal
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| Gas caught fire from somebody’s lamp
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| And the miners are choking in smoke
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| Goodbye to Dickie and Honey
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| Goodbye to the wife that I love
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| Lot of these men not coming home
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| Tonight when the work whistle blows
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| Dear sisters and brothers, goodbye
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| Dear mother and father, goodbye
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| My fingers are weak and I cannot write
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| Goodbye Centralia, goodbye
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| It looks like the end for me
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| And all of my buddies I see
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| We’re all writing letters to children we love
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| Please carry our word to our wives
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| We, found a little place in the air
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| Crawled and drug ourselves here
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| But the smoke is bad and the fumes coming in
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| And the gas is burning my eyes
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| Dear sisters and brothers, goodbye
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| Dear mother and father, goodbye
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| My fingers are weak and I cannot write
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| Goodbye Centralia, goodbye
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| Forgive me for the things I done wrong
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| I love you lots more than you know
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| When the night whistle blows and I don’t come home
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| Do all that you can to help mom
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| I can hear the moans and groans
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| More than a hundred good men
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| Just work and fight and try to see
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| That this never happens again
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| Dear sisters and brothers, goodbye
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| Dear mother and father, goodbye
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| My fingers are weak and I cannot write
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| Goodbye Centralia, goodbye
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| My eyes are blinded with fumes
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| But it sounds like the men are all gone
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| 'Cept Joe Valentini, Fred Gussler and George
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| Trapped down in this hell hole of fire
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| Please name our new baby Joe
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| So he’ll grow up like big Joe
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| He’ll work and he’ll fight and he’ll fix up the mines
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| So fire can’t kill daddy no more
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| Dear sisters and brothers, goodbye
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| Dear mother and father, goodbye
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| My fingers are weak and I cannot write
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| Goodbye Centralia, goodbye |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Dying Miner , by - Woody Guthrie. Song from the album America's Folk Idol No. 1, Vol.6, in the genre Музыка мира