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Song Lyrics
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- Twenty-Inch Mill/Celebrated Working Man
- Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow
- Altoona Freight Wreck
- Draglines
- Spike Crain
- Hard Travelin'
- Coal Diggin' Blues
- Bread and Roses
- I Lie in the American Land
- Two Cent Coal
- Soho on Saturday Night
1. Twenty-Inch Mill/Celebrated Working Man
Come all ye iron workers and listen to my song
It's all about the twenty-inch I won't detain you long
Our troubles they are numerous we have a noble crew
All things go right when we're by night we make a gallant show
We have roughers built like elephants and others thin and spare
Our catcher says it's all the same, our roller's seldom there
We have hookers, they're all skillful men -- Our straightners number five
And when it goes to changing rolls all nature seems alive
I'm the celebrated working man, my duties I don't shirk
I can cut more coal than any one from Pittsburgh to New York
It's a holy terrogation, lads how I get through my work
While I'm seated at my glory in the barroom
I can stand a set of timber, post, and bar a single prop
I can throw a chain on bottom or I'll throw it up on top
Just give me a pair of engines and be jeepers I won't stop
Till I land my triple wagons in the barroom
When they are on night turn, they come well-filled with beer
It takes a big supply, you know, to keep them in good cheer
They try like men to work again; you may look on with pride
The bar at last goes through the pass and sticks fast in the guide
I'm the celebrated working man, my duties I don't shirk
I can cut more coal than any one from Pittsburgh to New York
It's a holy terrogation, boys how I get through my work
While I'm seated at my glory in the barroom
Now we can't do much with iron rails, on slap-jacks or on tees
We're no great hands with channel bars, on posting rounds or zees
But we're expert hands on six-by-six, you're orders we can fill
And for you life, don't let them go to any other mill
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