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From The Lucius Terwilliger CD "Folk Paw"
Track 3	Anthracite	4:17
	Composer:	Tommy Patten
	Guitar & Vocal:	Ken Langford
	Lead Harmonica:	Paul Davies
	Bass Harmonica:	Ken Langford
	Track Started & Completed:	3/29/06 - 9/5/06
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Anthracite killed my neighbor
Anthracite crippled my Uncle Paul
But it warmed my house in the winter
While I grew up straight and tall

In Kulpmont and Shamokin
They're closin' the mines right down
Nothin’ left but holes in the ground
Holes all over town

Chorus:
Hard as a diamond
Black as the night
Burn forever
Anthracite

My home is in the valley
My wife, she's named Marie
She's two months off from child bearin'
It's the first for her and me

When that baby starts to walk
And understands the reasons why
Take him down to a minin’ hole
And show him daddy knows how to cry

Chorus

Gonna take him to that minin' hole
Where no one ever goes
Tell him 'bout the men who died down there
In a darkness that no one knows

Tell him about the banker
Gonna tell him 'bout the owner's son
He got the mine when his daddy died
And he closed it down and run

Chorus

There's a frost upon the man made mountain
My oil burner's workin' hard
I put another log on the fire
And it quickly turns to char

Anthracite killed my neighbor
Anthracite crippled my Uncle Paul
But it warmed my house in the winter
While I grew up straight and tall

Chorus x 2

Copyright 1977 Tommy Patten
Published by Weaver Street Music

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