Down In The Coalmine
I am a jovial collier* lad, as blithe as blithe can be.
And let the times be good or bad it's all the same to me.
It's little of the world I know, and care less for its ways.
For where the dog star never glows. I wear away my days.
Chorus: Down in the coal mine underneath the ground.
Where a gleam of sunshine never can be found.
Digging up the dusky diamonds all the season round.
Down in the coal mine underneath the ground.
My hands are horny hard and black from working in the vein.
And like the clothes upon my back. y speech is rough and plain
Well, if I stumble with my tongue. I've one excuse to say.
It's not the collier's heart that's wrong. It's the head that goes astray.
Chorus:
How little do the great ones care who sit at home secure.
What hidden dangers colliers dare, what hardships they endure.
The very fire they sit beside to cheer themselves and wives.
Mayhap was kindled at the cost of jovial miners' lives.
Chorus:
Then cheer up lads and make the most of every joy you can.
And always keep your spirits high as best befits a man.
For let the times be good or bad. we'll still be jovial souls.
For where would we all be-
Without the lads who search for coal?
Note: *Collier- coal-miner
- Seamus Kennedy
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Seamus Kennedy in Concert
- The Liar Time: 2:57
- Down in the Coalmine Time: 2:30
- Murphy & the Snails Time: 3:39
- Hard Times Time: 3:20
- The Drover's Dream Time: 2:24
- The Writing of 'Tipperary' Time: 5:14
- TWA Recruiting Sergeants Time: 3:45
- The Nuns & the Devil/Johnny & the Bishop Time: 1:31
- The Widow & the Fairy/The King of the Fairies Time: 3:28
- Rose Time: 0:43
- The Mouse Time: 1:22
- The Wearing of the Green/The Rising of the Moon Time: 3:41
- Moses-Ri-Tooral-I-Ay Time: 2:01
- Take Her in your Arms Time: 3:16
- Scottish People Time: 2:45
- The Greatest Love/A Bottle of the Best Time: 2:42
- Look at Maggie Now Time: 3:01
- City by the Lagan Side Time: 2:34
- Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go Time: 4:39
- The Parting Glass Time: 2:01
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