Back Lung

[Primera 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 
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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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[Tercera 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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