Northern Lights

Music and Lyrics by RAW Boswin

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They say a coal miner's daughter is a good friend indeed,

Cuz' her papa might land you the job that you need.

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If you pass his inspection, your ticket he'll read,

Cuz' every coal mine is measured by the lips that it feeds.

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Now I work in the shop at Wabamum Lake.

I'm another Electrician with Coal-Miners pay.

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After fixin' equipment for the men in the pit,

We'll head out to the Gainford and we'll all drink a bit.

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Amin F C G LET'S DRINK TO WIDE OPEN SPACES AND FAMILIAR FACES

AND FISHING THROUGH HOLES IN THE ICE.

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TOWARDS THE LAC ST. ANNE MISSION,

THE WHITEWOOD WE'RE FISHING,

TURNING COAL INTO DIAMONDS AND NORTHERN LIGHTS!

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Well my father before me and his before he,

Standing deep in the hole before turning fifteen,

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They were working for peanuts, breaking their backs,

'til along came the Sundance and Wabamum's Stacks.

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So the next generation new to the game,

Built these Generator stations a stones throw away.

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And the drag-lines made mountains of coal disappear,

We move more in a week than they could in a year

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And the miners keep diggin', we tend to the riggin'

We work hard but we won't work for free.

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We make Union decisions and constant revisions,

So the Steelworkers deep in the seam, can keep chasing the coalminer's dream.

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With computers compassion the schedulers forms

Have the Laser's surveying the prospectors dorms,

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And the Coal Miners Daughter is pregnant again,

While the Whitewood's exhausted in 2010.

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If we've learned from the past, no coal mine outlasts

The son of a coalminer's daughter,rage

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Since’ the Genesee's breached , guess we'll leave Seba Beach

Cuz' we'll never make blood out of water ... And we'll never make coal out of stone.

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And I married that Coalminer's Daughter, guess we're leaving our Wabamum loam.

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© 2000 Rob Oswin (aka RAW Boswin)

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