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You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace ‘company’ with our company’s name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.
That one’s the best by far.
Geoff Castellucci (the bass singer from Voiceplay) made a great cover version of that one btw ❤️
Damn, that was really good. I’ve only ever heard the original, but brava
Right?! I highly recommend that you rabbit hole the shit out of both his solo stuff and Voiceplay! So damn good!
that’s the first version I heard and tbh the original can’t hold a flame to his voice
Love this one. Absolute banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j91-18Kb4
I don’t have a link anymore, but this playlist does exist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TwmS2Fps3wdCIoBy9r4BX
but that’s just shy of an hour.
Seems to be missing “Pound a Week Rise”
I have a good many of these in a personal “class war” Playlist but this increases my collection
I think it’s this one Sexy Time Although it doesn’t seem to actually be nine hours long
I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it’s just the vibe, there’s some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits’ “Telegraph Road” and Springsteen’s “The River”, but there’s a lot more like that.
But just believe in me, baby, and I’ll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I’ve run every red light on memory lane
I’ve seen desperation explode into flames
And I don’t want to see it again
I really like “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” by The Band (also not about coal mining).
If it even exists. The coal miner part was obviously added in after the fact and not part of the original tweet.
Indeed, the original read, “It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band.”
I’ll begrudgingly accept this reality over the striking songs, because I also like non-disney star wars + Andor.
Man I hate having to make that distinction.
Look what they did to ma boy 😭
Mine is just sixteen hours of this:
But the banks are made of marble
With a guard at every door
And the vaults are filled with silver
That the miners sweated for
Do people have sexy time playlists?
This is my go to album https://youtu.be/njB4CDHElUQ
Because there’s always a relevant XKCD.
Yes, it is just cbat on repeat
Is that the radio version of C-Span?
Its a reference to a viral post from reddit
Are there even enough Billy Bragg albums to do this?
God don’t venture down here
The Devil’s lost your name
Your life hangs in the balance
on this fragile human chain
And when your spirit’s waning
The fear is yours to tame
When you feel the darkness closing
Turn up your carbide flameSo tell God and the Devil they can try
But today’s not gonna be the day we dieBarry White’s growly rendition of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
Put down your bibles, pick up your guns.
Blair Mountain here we come.
Need YouTube playlist link! Please
(Bcuz fuck Spotify. But also fuck Google. But ya.)
It’s in the evening after dark
When the blackleg miner creeps to work
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg minerSo join the union while you may
Don’t wait till your dying day
For that may not be far away
You dirty blackleg minerBlackleg Miner (traditional - Roud 3193) - listen to the Steeleye Span version, ideally from the Back in Line album - and don’t break the strike!
Here’s another one for the sexy time
Throw on some Utah Phillips, nothing better than an old Wobblie to preface getting wobbly with someone special, thank me later.
