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Coal Miner's Blues

The Carter Family
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The Carter Family

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[1938]
Raccolta da Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (1891-1960), membro fondatore della Carter Family, da un vecchio minatore del villaggio di St. Charles, Lee County, Virginia. Registrata da Alvin Pleasant con Sara e Maybelle Carter (voci e chitarra) nel 1938 a New York, disco Decca.
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The Carter Family
Some blues are just blues, mine are the miner's blues.
Some blues are just blues, mine are the miner's blues.
My troubles are coming by threes and by twos.

Blues and more blues, it's that coal black blues.
Blues and more blues, it's that coal black blues.
Got coal in my hair, got coal in my shoes.

These blues are so blue, they are the coal black blues.
These blues are so blue, they are the coal black blues.
For my place will cave in, and my life I will lose.

You say they are blues, these old miner's blues.
You say they are blues, these old miner's blues.
Now I must have sharpened these picks that I use.

I'm out with these blues, dirty coal black blues.
I'm out with these blues, dirty coal black blues.
We'll lay off tomorrow with the coal miner's blues.

Contributed by Bernart Bartleby - 2017/12/5 - 13:58




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