Views : 199,867
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Sep 21, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.978 (12/2,220 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-15T09:27:55.492864Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
this was always my favorite Dead South track after 'Good Company' and I'm kinda surprised it's not more popular. compared to their simpler music this song is such a rich and textured and layered tapestry of storytelling and musicianship. someone said it would make a great TV series intro and they weren't kidding. this thing is so ripe for the picking. disappointed that it never got picked up π
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Lyrics
Basically we are all alone at the centre of a pickaxe mine
Black lung stings as the pickaxe swings
And the void of the mine closes in
The Devil came and the angels sang
The song of the Holy Ghost
Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold Like the dust I spit from my mouth.
Whoa-oa-oh-oh-oh-oa, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oa Whoa-oa-oh-oh-oh-oa, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oa
Remember the night with the barroom fight Where I killed all of my best friends
We gambled it away with the whiskey open keg
And we never saw it again
Well,I had a wife that I met back in high school
Her name was Lyla-Jean
We saved away to escape some place
On a local miner's minor pay.
Whoa-oa-oh-oh-oh-oa, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oa Whoa-oa-oh-oh-oh-oa, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oa
We saved so long the fall came and gone
At least 27 times
It fell through the floorboards into deep dark darkness
And we never saw it again
West Virginia's home and that's where we're staying
To the blade of the Bible hymn
Jesus says we're wicked so we just keep on pickin'
At the scab of the open mine.
Whoa-oa-oh-oh-oh-oa, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oa Whoa-oa-oh-oh-oh-oa, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oa
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@mariom5164
1 year ago
By seeing the title it just reminded me to Red Dead Redemption 2, of how Micah Bell calls Arthur when he gets sick, actually all your songs fit amazing in that game. I love the New ones amazing work π₯π§¨ππ
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