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Well, the night is as thick as silence
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You can't cut it with a knife
A man lies in the hospital
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Draining out his life
The trucks are on the back road
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In the dark the headlights shine
'Cause there's one man dead
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On that Harlan County line
Oh, anger, like poison
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Is eating at your soul
Your thoughts are loud as gunfire
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Your face as hard as coal
Bitterness, like buckshot
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Explodes inside your mind
And there's one man dead
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On that Harlan County line
Oh, a miner's life is fragile
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It could shatter just like ice
But those who bear the struggle
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Have always paid the price
There's blood upon the contract
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Like vinegar in wine
And there's one man dead
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On that Harlan County line
From the river bridge at Highsplint
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To the Brookside railroad track
You can feel the long strake building
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That can never be turned back
The dead go forward with us
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Not one is left behind
'Cause there's one man dead
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On that Harlan County line
Well, the night is as cold as iron
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You can feel it in your bones
It settles like a shroud upon
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The grave of Lawrence Jones
The graveyard shift is walking
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From the bathhouse into the mine
And there's one man dead
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On that Harlan County line
One man dead
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On that Harlan County line
One miner dead
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On that Harlan County line