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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 8d ago
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The original rednecks were striking miners, that sported red handkerchiefs. We’re losing so much.
137 u/Talking_Head 8d ago WV went from one of the most reliably Democratic voting states to one of the most reliably Republican voting states in my voting lifetime. 10 u/Traditional-Back-172 8d ago Country rooooooaaaaaad ~ 21 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" 5 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.
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WV went from one of the most reliably Democratic voting states to one of the most reliably Republican voting states in my voting lifetime.
10 u/Traditional-Back-172 8d ago Country rooooooaaaaaad ~ 21 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" 5 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.
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Country rooooooaaaaaad ~
21 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" 5 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.
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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"
5 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.
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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
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.
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u/flactulantmonkey 8d ago
The original rednecks were striking miners, that sported red handkerchiefs. We’re losing so much.