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kev carmody - tom shane lyrics

[verse 1]
my husband tom shane, was a powder man
worked at the face in the mine
twenty+six years old, he knew nothing but coal
a cut lunch and to clock in on time
monday through sunday is a work+a+day week
three shifts a day in the shafts
sat+rday, a miner gives rest to his bones
sunday, the night shift would start

[verse 2]
and it’s hammer and tap to drive the drills in
blast a sweat track through the ground
wedging in beams to pursue that black seam
hammer on steel’s the soul sound
some austrian duke stopped the bullet of lead
hughes shamed our men off to war
tom neatly packed into a brown haversack
silently strode through the door

[verse 3]
the pit heads cast wheels they turned through the days
the pit ponies a year older grew
’til a note came one day to officially say
i’d lost the best man that i knew
my grief for so long was as black as the mine
my children a fatherless brood
my man at times seems, crowds into my dreams
but i still need that cold cash for food
[verse 4]
lightly by night, the gentle wind blows
below there, they still blast the seams
by the pores of his skin, you’ll know a moreton coalman
know his widow by the lack of her means

- kev carmody lyrics

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