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DOWN, DOWN, DOWN
P. 6, Pennsylvania Folk Songs and Ballads, George G. Korson, Bucknell University, Lewis-burg, Pa. Improvised by William Keating, transcribed and arranged by Melvin LeMon.
"An anthracite mine workers first day on a new job" |
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1 With your kind attention a song I will trill, All ye who must toil with the pick and the drill, And sweat for your bread in that hole at Oak Hill, That goes down, down, down.
2 "When I was a boy," said my daddy to me, "Stay out of Oak Hill, take my warning" said he, "Or with dust you'll be choked and a pauper you'll be, Broken down, down, down."
3 But I went to Oak Hill and I asked for a job, A mule for to drive or a gangway to rob;
The boss said, "Come out, Bill, and follow the mob That goes down, down, down."
4 The lampman he squints through the windie at me,
"What's your name? What's your age? What's your number?" says he. "Bill Keating; I'm thirty; my check's twenty-three; Mark that down, down, down."
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