Battle Of Blair Mountain

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G
The strike had lasted for a year
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When they shot down Smilin' Sid
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He was a lawman who stood up for us miners
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That's the only crime he ever did
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A hundred miners locked up with no trial
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There in Mingo-town
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But the last straw came in Sharples
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When they gunned the women down

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We're marchin' on to Mingo
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Ten thousand men and countin'
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Here in the hills of West Virginia
G
At the Battle of Blair Mountain

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G
We shouted through the hillsides
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In every union hall
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We're marchin' on to Mingo
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Teach them a lesson, once and all
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We commandeered every freight train
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To the Kentucky line
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Took every car that crossed our path
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And all the guns and ammo we could find

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G
The union leaders tried to stop us
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Mother Jones told us to turn back
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But we had learned ourselves from the gun thugs
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There's a time to talk and a time to attack
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We had no leader, we didn't need one
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We all knew our way through Logan County
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And we all knew once we got there
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We're gonna hang Sheriff Chapin from a sour apple tree

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G
We dug trenches and wore helmets
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That we brought from the Argonne
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All the way from France to Logan
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We fought from dusk to dawn
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They dropped explosives from their airplanes
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Such a thing you never saw
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They shot us with machine guns
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It was the operator's law

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G
For three days and nights we fought them
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The front was ten miles wide
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Every cop and scab in West Virginia
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Were there on the other side
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President Harding sent in the Army
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And we left our line to them
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But the hills of West Virginia
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Will long remember when

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