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Blackleg Miner

from Demonstration by Thugs & Terrorists

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lyrics

It's in the evening after dark,
when the blackleg miner creeps to work
in his moleskin pants & dirty shirt,
there goes the blackleg miner.
Well he grabs his duds & down he goes,
to hue the coal that lies below.
There's not a woman in the town who will
look at the blackleg miner.

Delaval is a terrible place,
they rub wet clay in the blackleg's face
& around the heaps they run a foot race
to catch the blackleg miner.
Dinnae (don't) go near the Seghill mine,
across the way they stretch the line,
to catch the throat & break the spine,
of the dirty blackleg miner.

Well they grab his duds & his picks as well
& haul him down in a pit of hell.
Down you go & fare ye well,
you dirty blackleg miner.
It's in the evening after dark,
when the blackleg miner creeps to work.
In his moleskin pants & dirty shirt,
there goes the blackleg miner.

So join the union while you may
& don't wait till your dying day.
'Cause that may not be far away,
you dirty blackleg miner.

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from Demonstration, released January 21, 2014

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Thugs & Terrorist were a political punk, folk, rock band based in Canberra in the early/mid nineties.

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