Name: The Last Coal Miner
Duration: P00H02M25S
Description: I had this idea and the song just wrote itself.

The Last Coal Miner

by Rhuari Campbell

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I had this idea and the song just wrote itself.

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I am the last coal miner
The last man to lay down his pick
for hundreds of year we've been digging down here
Now they're closing down the pit

My boy is a strapping young lad
A coal miner just like his dad
And all that he knows is just digging for coal
Now he can't even do that

My father was also a miner
and his father and his before him
Oh what would he say if he could see me today?
He'd say "son, don't you go giving in"

I'm a worler, it's in my soul
All my life I've been digging for coal
On Monday morning I won't be earning
I'm going on the dole

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released November 11, 2023
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