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montanacowboy

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3. I love that John Prine song!

Reply to gejohnston (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2013, 06:21 PM

May 2013

having grown up in the coal fields of eastern Ohio and West Virginia, playing on the slag heaps of the Y & O Coal Co. I remember the houses where the miners lived and the store where they had to shop as they were paid in script. The creeks ran red with the runoff. My grandfather was killed in the coal mines. John L Lewis was king then and a Union Leader like no other. Those fucking coal companies - damn them to hell.

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