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When my dad left school he was given a job in a local pit. He worked one shift and hated the cramped conditions and the terrible hot claustrophobic atmosphere. He refused to go back into the mine.

His dad (my Granddad) was really annoyed because he had pulled strings to get him the job. This caused a huge family rift that lasted for many years.

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Miner

By Bill Bates

You'll never get me down the pit way down underground
Where sunshine never shows her face
and winds can not be found
You'll never see me with a pick in that godforsaken hole
You'll never get me down the mine digging up he coal

Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine
Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine

You'll never see me filling up
the wagons on the line
Where pony's pull their loaded trucks
in the godforsaken mine
You'll not have me cough up my lungs
and then spit out the black

I've been down there once before
and I'm never doing back
Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine
Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine

I don't want to be a pit boy in the coal industry
In the mill or railway well that’s the work for me
Sweating at the seam and blackening my soul
You'll never get me down the mine digging up the coal

Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine
Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine

God bless the working man who's working underground
God bless the miner who's fears cannot be found
God bless the unemployed man who's rotting on the dole
You'll never get me down the mine digging up the coal

Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine
Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine

Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine
Don't make me go down the mine dad
Don't make me go down the mine

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from When England Calls - (26 tracks), track released January 3, 2012

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Bill Bates Royal Leamington Spa, UK

I am a Warwickshire based singer songwriter and I perform my songs in folk clubs and festivals. My songs are (almost) autobiographical and often about the ordinary things in life, such as caravan holidays, recycling and a song about a Mars Bar party (where people are supposed to have took their clothes off!) Some of my songs are funny, other songs are serious; either way I hope you like them! ... more

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