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Song Lyrics
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  1. Twenty-Inch Mill/Celebrated Working Man
  2. Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow
  3. Altoona Freight Wreck
  4. Draglines
  5. Spike Crain
  6. Hard Travelin'
  7. Coal Diggin' Blues
  8. Bread and Roses
  9. I Lie in the American Land
  10. Two Cent Coal
  11. Soho on Saturday Night
7. Coal Diggin' Blues

Fifteen years in a coal mine 'taint a very long time
Some men pull a lifetime, some pull ninety-nine

Thought I heard a seagull way down under ground
Must have been those miners turning that coal around

When that train left Brownsville sure was moving slow
I kissed goodbye my woman and marched on down below
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