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Artist: Allen Toussaint
Canonical path: /allen-toussaint/working-in-the-coal-mine
Related lyric paths: 6
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Working In The Coal Mine
Read Working In The Coal Mine lyrics by Allen Toussaint on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Working In The Coal Mine
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Working in the coal mine
Going down down down
Working in the coal mine
Whoop I wanna sit down
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Five o'clock in the morning
I'm already up and gone
Lord I'm so tired
How long can this go on
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Cause I work every morning
Hauling coal by the ton,
But when saturday rolls around
I'm too tired to have any fun
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Spoken:Lord, I'm so tired. How long can this go on?
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