| A miner’s life is like a sailor on board a ship to cross the waves
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| Every day his life’s in danger, many ventures being brave
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| Watch the rocks, they’re falling daily, careless miners always fail
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| Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale
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| Union miners, stand together
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| Do not heed the Coal Board’s tale
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| Keep your hand upon your wages
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| And your eye upon the scale
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| You’ve been docked and docked again, boys, you’ve been loading three for one
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| What’s the use in all your working when your mining days are done?
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| Worn out shoes and worn miners, blackened lungs and faces pale
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| Oh keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale
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| Union miners, stand together
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| Do not heed the Coal Board’s tale
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| Keep your hand upon your wages
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| And your eye upon the scale
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| In conclusion, bear in memory, keep this password in your mind
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| Worker’s strength cannot be broken when unions be combined
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| Stand up tall and stand together, victory for you prevail
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| Oh keep your hands upon your wages and your eye upon the scale
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| Union miners, stand together
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| Do not heed the Coal Board’s tale
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| Keep your hand upon your wages
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| And your eye upon the scale
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| Union miners, stand together
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| Do not heed the Coal Board’s tale
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| Keep your hand upon your wages
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| And your eye upon the scale |