r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 8d ago

Video Coal mining

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u/Wepwaet 7d ago

Wrong song... you want "You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store"

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u/TootsTootler 7d ago

Yes! But you also want:

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine

When a timber cracked and men started cryin'

Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast

And everybody thought that they'd breathed their last, 'cept John

BIG John.