Blue Diamond Mines

	  		
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I remember the ways in the bygone days 
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When we were in our prime 
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When us and John L give the old man hell 
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Down in the Blue Diamond Mine 


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Well, the whistle blowed as the rooster crow 
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Two hours before daylight 
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When a man done his best and he's earned his good rest 
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Paid seventeen dollars a night 

 
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In the mines in the mines 
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In the Blue Diamond Mines 
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I worked my life away 
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In the mines in the mines 
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In the Blue Diamond Mines 
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Oh, fall on your knees and pray 



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You old black gold, you've taken my lung 
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And your dust has darkened my home 
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And now that we're old, you're turning your back 
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Where else can an old miner go 


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Well, it's Algoma Block and it's Big Leather Woods 
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And now its Blue Diamond too 
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Well, the pits are all closed, better get another job 
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What else can an old miner do? 


 
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In the mines in the mines 
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In the Blue Diamond Mines 
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I worked my life away 
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In the mines in the mines 
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In the Blue Diamond Mines 
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Oh, fall on your knees and pray 



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John L had a dream, but it's broken it seems 
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Mining has had it's day 
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But they're stripping off my mountain top 
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And they pay me eight dollars a day 


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You might get a little poke of welfare meal  
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A little poke of welfare flour  
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But I tell you right now, you won't qualify  
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'Til you work for a quarter an hour  

 
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In the mines in the mines 
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In the Blue Diamond Mines 
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I worked my life away 
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In the mines in the mines 
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In the Blue Diamond Mines 
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Oh, fall on your knees and pray 



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