[Primeira Parte]

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Basically we are all alone in the centre 
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Of a pickaxe mine
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Black lung stings as the pickaxe swings
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As the void of the mine closes in
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The Devil Came and the Angels sang
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A Song of the Holy Ghost
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Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold
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Like the dust I spit from my mouth
 
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[Segunda Parte]

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Remember the night with the barroom fight
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Where I killed all of my best friends
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We gambled it away with the whiskey open keg

And we never saw it again

Well I had a wife that I met back in High school
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Her name was Lyla-Jean
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We saved away to escape some place

On a local miner's minor pay
 
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[Terceira Parte]

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We saved so long the fall came and gone
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At Least 27 times
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It fell through the floorboards 

Into deep dark darkness

And we never saw it again

West Virginia's home and that's 

Where we're staying
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To the blade of the bible hymn
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Jesus says we're wicked so we just keep on pickin'
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At the scab of the open mine
 
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