Down In The Mine Lyrics - Up On The Ridge - Dierks Bentley

Here in Harlan County, the choices are few 

To keep food on the table and the babies in shoes 

You can grow marijuana way back in the pines 

Or work for the man down in the mine 

You never forget your first day in the hole 

There's a pit in your stomach and your mouth's full of coal 

There's no turning back once you make up your mind 

As the cart rattles on down in the mine 

Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud 

And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs 

Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines 

Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave 

Way down in the mine 

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Well the old timers talk but you just don't believe 

It can all go to hell at two thousand feet 

Life sways in the balance of nature and time 

And fate has no mercy down in the mine 

The news spreads like fire and burned through those hills 

Hopes were held high but five men got killed 

On the wings of canaries, your soul surely flies 

While your bones spend eternity down in the mine 

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Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud 

And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs 

Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines 

Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave 

Way down in the mine 

So take a flask from your crib can can and a pull of moonshine 

And say a prayer for them boys down in the mine