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T:The Blackleg Miner
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w:Oh it's in the eve - ning after dark The black - leg min - ers gan to work, With their
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w: mole-skin trou-sers and their dirty shirts There go the black-leg min-ers.
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W:Oh it's in the evening after dark
W:The blackleg miners gan to work,
W:With their moleskin trousers and their dirty shirts
W:There go the blackleg miners. 
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W:They take their picks and down they go
W:To hew the coal that lies below
W:And there's not a woman in this town row
W:Will look at a blackleg miner. 
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W:Oh Delavel is a terrible place,
W:They rub wet clay in a blacklegs face,
W:And round the pitheaps they run a foot race
W:To catch the blackleg miners.
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W:Oh divn't gan near the Seghill mine,
W:Across the way they hang a line
W:To catch the throat and break the spine
W:Of the dirty blackleg miners. 
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W:They'll take your tools and your duds as well
W:And throw them down in the pit of hell,
W:It's down you go and fare you well,
W:You dirty blackleg miners. 
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W:So join the union while you may
W:And don't wait till your dying day
W:For that may not be very far away,
W:You dirty blackleg miners

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