1. Damn
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2. Shootin' coal!
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3. Shootin' coal!
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4. Danny What in God's name are you doing?
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5. I got a shot set up back there
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6. Word come down from Turley
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7. Tonnage rate?
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8. They brung it down to 90 cent a ton
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9. - Down?
- Them dagos are holding fast in Number 3
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10. He says take it or leave it
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11. Sephus, what are we going to do?
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to West Virginia,
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than they done for a draft mule.
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down there in Mingo County,
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was known as Bloody Mingo.
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there on Tug Fork,
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28. We done it, Mama
We're going to have the union!
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29. Just got to stop for a little repair
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30. Sorry for the inconvenience
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31. It's the Bolshevists, is what
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32. Some of them fellas went over
to the war there, and they come back red
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33. It's just like a disease It spreads
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34. Well, they shipped in
all kinds of Italians, right off the boat
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35. They're still bringing coal out of there
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36. I'd sure hate to get a whiff
of that mine shaft
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37. What the hell are we stopping for?
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38. Step down, gentleman
This here'll be your new home
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39. How come we ain't getting off in town?
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40. Just get in line
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41. Get out of here!
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42. - Get back!
- Get on the train!
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43. Ah, my nose!
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44. I'm going to kill him!
When I get him, I'll kill him
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45. Hey, get on the train! Get on!
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46. Come on, Few!
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47. Come on, Few! Come on!
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48. Come on, Few!
Give me your hand right here
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49. Get out of here!
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50. Get out of here! Don't come back, boy
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51. Don't you ever come back
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52. Hey, when do we get to Matewan?
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53. You don't want to go there, mister
Ain't nothing but crazy people
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54. Hi
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55. Hi
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56. Everybody was here,
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57. then they got word
and they gone on up the line a ways
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58. Some kind of union business
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59. Yeah, I saw
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60. You best steer clear of it
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61. My name's Bridey Mae Tolliver
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62. Uh, Joe Kenehan
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63. You know Radnor's boardinghouse?
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64. Big white house,
right on past the coal dock
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65. She's a real sourpuss, though,
Elma Radnor
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66. Thank you
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67. You going to be in town long?
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68. Ah, it depends
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69. I'll see you around
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70. I hope so
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71. These picks and shovels
are to be considered a loan
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72. from the Stone Mountain Coal Company
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73. Their cost will be deducted
from your first month's pay
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74. Tool-sharpening provided by the company
is 25 cents a month
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75. Use of the wash house is 75 cents a month
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is $2 a month,
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provided by the company,
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from your first month's pay
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80. Your pay will be issued as company scrip,
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at the Stone Mountain company store
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82. Purchases of any items available
at the company store
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83. from outside merchants
will result in firing without pay
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84. What's to keep you all from jacking up
them prices at your store?
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85. Name?
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86. Johnson They calls me Few Clothes
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87. Powder, fuses, lamps, headgear,
all appropriate clothing
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88. will be available at the company store,
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89. and Stone Mountain will generously advance
you a month's supply of these items,
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90. payment to be deducted
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91. I'm gonna take you over to camp now
where you'll be living
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92. There's some Italian gentleman there
very eager to meet you
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93. Rentals will be for one room,
$250 a month
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94. Company rule, no more than two people
to one room, children included
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95. Electricity, where that is feasible,
will be $1 a month
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96. Coal for heating will be supplied
by the company
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97. Mrs Radnor?
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98. Yes?
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99. My name is Joe Kenehan
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100. I'm going to be in town for a bit
and your place here was recommended
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101. What do you do?
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102. I guess I'm looking for work
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103. You with the company?
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104. The company?
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105. You ain't with the company,
there ain't no work
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106. Look, mister, don't act the lamb with me
What's your business here?
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107. Mama!
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108. - Mama, it's Hillard
- Oh, Lord
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109. Them scabs done it, up the line a mile
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110. They was all colored this time
They bust his nose!
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111. - You got ice?
- In the back
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112. Go fetch me two chunks, about this big,
and a rag
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113. You a doctor?
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114. No, but I've seen my share
of broken noses
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115. Now just point it up in the air, buddy,
just like you're watching the clouds
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116. We'll get that bleeding stopped
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117. I got my licks in
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118. - You say what?
- He said he got his licks in
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care about
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120. Wives and kids are starving,
so long as they get their licks in
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121. It's just frustration, is all,
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122. when you can't take care of them
you care about
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123. - I know, it ain't their fault
- Here you go
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124. This freezes up
all them little veins inside
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125. It's just so they close up
and they don't let any more blood out
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126. - You a doctor?
- No
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127. I'm just a guy
looking for a place to stay
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128. $5 a week, cash
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129. That includes dinner and clean sheets
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130. Hope I'm not making a mistake
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131. Name is Joe Kenehan
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132. Lay back your head
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133. Oh, mostly I worked for the railroads,
laying track
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134. Kansas, Missouri
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135. I went out west for a bit,
worked in a lumber camp
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136. A little of whatever
pays an honest dollar
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137. I'm a coal miner
Least till we come out I was
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138. Had me over in Section 3
I was a trapper boy
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139. - Ain't you a little young?
- I'm almost 15
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140. There's some in there younger than me
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141. With the strike now,
I mostly work on running this place
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142. I help a little, don't I?
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143. It's going to be a long one
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144. That superintendent at Stone Mountain,
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147. - Danny
- Oh, sorry, ma'am
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149. - Daniel's a preacher
- Is that so?
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150. You ought to hear him testify
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151. What church you with?
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152. Round here there's the missionary folks
They's the hardshell Baptists
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153. Then there's the free will folks,
which is your softshell Baptists
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154. Right now I preach for both
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155. Oh, I'll get it
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156. Daniel's going to preach tonight
over at the missionary
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157. I never was religious myself
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158. It's Sephus, Mama
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159. Hello, Elma
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160. - Mrs Knightes
- Hello, Sephus
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161. I come to have a word
with your new boarder
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162. if he don't mind
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163. Excuse me
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164. Claims he's the fella the union sent us
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165. Can you prove it?
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166. Don't take nothing to have
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167. You'll just have to trust me
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168. Who wrote The Iron Heel?
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169. Jack London
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170. Where's Joe Hill buried at?
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171. All over the world
They scattered his ashes
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172. Which eye is Big Bill Heywood missing?
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173. - His right one
- How did Frank Little die?
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174. Butte, Montana
They hung him from a railroad trestle
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175. Well, you know your stuff
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176. - I was with the Wobblies
- Me too, back when it meant something
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177. - One big union
- Not around here, buddy
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179. This is my restaurant
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180. The fellas are waiting
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181. They don't give a damn
whether we live or die,
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out of the ground
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183. They had us pulling pillars
and the roof was working,
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184. you know, like it does
before it's going to fall down
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185. If I say, "I ain't dying in here"
and walk away,
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186. they'll put me down in some damn puddle
in a two-foot seam
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187. and no air to breathe
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188. A man can't mine coal that way
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189. They're just pushing us further
than we can go
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190. The checkweighman, he'll take 50 pounds
off your load for slate
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191. when there ain't a pebble in it
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192. "It's down in the bottom," he'll say,
where there ain't no looking for it
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193. Then they raise the prices
at the company store
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194. the same goddamn week
that they lower the tonnage rate
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195. And they still ain't rock-dusted
that damn hole
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196. Who am I talking about?
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197. - Jesus
- I can't hear you
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198. - Jesus!
- I still can't hear you
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199. - Jesus!
- Jesus Christ, our Lord
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200. Do you know his name?
Have you seen his glory?
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201. Have you felt the warming comfort
of his precious love?
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202. - Praise Jesus!
- Praise Jesus!
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203. Praise his holy name!
Praise his blessed spirit!
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204. Praise his everlasting love!
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205. Jesus Christ, our Lord
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207. The Prince of Darkness
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209. - Amen
- Now, in the Bible
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212. Right now on Earth today
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socialist, communist, union man!
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216. and this creature
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218. What are we going to do about it?
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219. First thing we got to have is all of these
niggers and all these dagos
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220. that come in here to take our jobs
thrown out of the mines
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221. Mines! Hell! They got them in our houses,
they're sitting at our tables right now,
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222. and they're sleeping in our beds
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223. while we're out living under a piece
of canvas at the back of the holler
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224. I been a union man my whole life
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225. I know the story with these coal operators
and their gun thugs
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226. The only thing they understand
is the bad end of a bullet
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227. If we show them we'd just as soon
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then they're going to listen
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229. Someone's coming It's Ellix
He got someone
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238. I didn't come here looking for no trouble
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240. So why don't you go eat,
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241. They told me that there was jobs here
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242. - Go home, nigger
- God damn, scab
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243. You watch your mouth, peckerwood
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244. I been called nigger, and I can't help
that's the way white folks is,
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245. but I ain't never been called no scab!
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246. And I ain't fixing to start up now
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247. I'll go ton for ton loading coal
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248. And when I do, I expect the same dollar
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249. You get out of this holler alive, son,
you'll be doing good for yourself
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250. Union men, my ass
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251. You want to be treated like men?
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252. You want to be treated fair?
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253. Well, you ain't men to that coal company
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254. You're equipment,
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255. like a shovel, a gondola car,
or a hunk of wood brace
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256. They'll use you till you wear out
or you break down,
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and then they'll get a new one
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258. And they don't care what color it is
or where it comes from
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has lived on this land
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261. If you stand alone,
you're just so much shit to those people
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262. You think this man is your enemy?
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263. Huh?
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264. This is a worker
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265. Any union keeps this man out
ain't a union,
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267. Now they got you fighting white
against colored,
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holler against holler,
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to this world,
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271. You work, they don't
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272. That's all you got to know
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273. You say you got guns
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with the company if you had to
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276. But the coal company
don't want this union,
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277. the state government don't want it,
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278. the federal government don't want it
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279. And they're all of them just waiting
for an excuse to come down
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281. Fellas, we're in a hole
full of coal gas here
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282. The tiniest spark at the wrong time
is going to be the end of us
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283. So we got to pick away at this situation
slow and careful
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284. We got to organize and build support
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285. We got to work together
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286. Together!
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287. Till they can't get their coal
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288. 'cause we're a union!
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289. 'Cause we're the workers, damn it!
And we take care of each other
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290. How can we shut the mines down
if we don't dynamite them?
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291. The men walk out
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293. Fat chance
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294. And every man that walks out
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296. All the dagos and all the colored?
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297. That's what a union is, fellas
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298. You better get used to it
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299. So this fella owns a vineyard,
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and he hires some workers
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301. Says he'll give them a dollar for the day,
which was decent wages in biblical times
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and he sees some other fellas,
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304. And some more at noon and 2:00 and 5:00,
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305. and every time it's the same deal,
a dollar for the day
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till one hour before quitting time
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307. Look, we're real sorry
to barge in on you like this,
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where we got to talk to you
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309. Now, I know you people got it hard
coming to a new country
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310. You don't know the rules
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312. They don't know shit about mining coal,
that's for sure
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313. They been dying like flies
in that Number 3 hole
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314. What's he saying?
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315. But how it is, you don't have
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316. You know what a union is?
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317. Well, what the situation is,
we need everybody—
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318. We join the union, they shoot us
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319. We no join the union, you shoot us
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320. Well, that's one way of looking at it
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321. - What does he want?
- He wants us to join the union
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322. The union! The union again!
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323. Rosaria
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324. That dago's driving me crazy
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325. - Now what's he playing?
- Shh
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327. Peckerwood's gone past
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328. Union man be over in a few minutes
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329. What we talking to him for?
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330. You want to walk back to Alabama?
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331. Sun goes down, he sends for his foreman,
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335. Of course, the fellas that went out first
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350. "A man deserveth an hourly wage,"
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355. - Praise Jesus
- Praise Jesus
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360. Yeah
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361. Who are you?
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363. I'm chief of police around here
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364. It ain't against the law to talk, is it?
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365. Depends
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366. I take care of my people
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367. You bring them trouble, you're a dead man
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368. Sleep tight, Kenehan
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369. Hi
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370. Well, look at this, Griggsy
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371. They got up
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372. What is your name, honey?
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374. You like to watch the trains come and go,
Bridey Mae?
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375. - Yeah
- Yeah?
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376. - And the people what come into town
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377. There been a lot of new people
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378. A few
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380. Maybe
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381. Are you married, Bridey Mae?
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382. I was
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383. He got killed in the mine
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384. Oh, that's too bad
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385. Did you hear that, Griggsy?
He got killed in the mine
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386. It's a shame
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387. Was your husband a union man
while he was living?
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388. No He said it wouldn't never
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389. He sounds like a smart fella
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390. I think that you are real pretty
You know that, Bridey Mae?
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391. Thank you
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392. Don't you think she's pretty, Griggsy?
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393. You are the best-looking mountain trash
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394. We'll see you around
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395. Let's roll, Griggsy
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396. The sooner we get out of this shithole,
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397. I was putting up blackberries
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398. when Trammell Blankenship
come shouting up the holler
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399. that the Number 5 had blown
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400. I remember I took the pot
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401. and washed up my hands before I went down
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402. It took two days to dig through
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403. Then when they brung them up,
you couldn't tell which was which
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404. They found blood on the walls
from fellas trying to claw their way out
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405. Mrs Elkins, Mrs Mounts,
Bridey Mae, me
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407. Danny was seven then
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408. Now he's back in that same hole
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409. How'd it start?
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410. Coal dust gets hanging in the air
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411. They could spray the walls down,
but the company says that'd cost too much
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412. Hey, was, uh
was Sid Hatfield ever a miner?
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He don't like to be closed in, Sid
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415. Then the war come,
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and then the girl that Cabell marr—
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418. Well
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420. A man has to stand up
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421. Danny ain't no man
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422. Look here, mister,
you're going to be moving on
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423. Win or lose, you'll walk on out
of this holler We got to stay here
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424. I intend to leave a union when I go
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426. I seen where it got him
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427. Mama! People out front, Mama
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428. - Sorry, mister, we're full up
- Not anymore you're not, sonny
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429. - Stone Mountain sent us down here
- We're still full up
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430. Can I help you gentleman?
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431. They're trying to push their way
in here I said it wasn't no use
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432. I don't see where
you got any say
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433. My mama says you can't stay here,
then you can't, that's all
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434. Danny! Keep out of this
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435. Look, I only got one room left
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436. Then somebody's going to have to move,
don't they?
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437. Let me see your register
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438. You ain't seeing nothing
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439. Lady, we're here as guests
of the Stone Mountain Coal Company
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440. They own this house
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441. Good morning
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442. You fellas moving in?
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443. - Yeah
- No
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444. Well, you won't find
a better night's sleep anywheres in town
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445. It's a shame I got to move
over to the hotel
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446. It's business, you know
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447. So you mind if I settle my bill, ma'am?
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448. Danny, you sign these two gentleman in
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449. Don't think the company
isn't going to hear about this
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450. Boy, sometimes you got to bend
so as you don't break
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451. Food's awful at the hotel
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452. Mattresses got lumps,
probably cooties too
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453. I'll be all right
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454. I'll get my things
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455. Thank you
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456. Now, if you want to stay alive down here,
you got to listen up
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457. Get ahold of something solid,
and give the top a little poke
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458. Now, if you get a nice ringing sound,
you're all set
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459. Got a nice solid top over your head
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460. You get a kind of hollow sound,
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461. like a drum,
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462. that slate's sagging a bit,
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463. and you got to put in another post
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464. You dig coals a long time, eh?
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465. I've been going underground
since I was ten You?
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466. We make shoe Everybody in
same factory in Milano, make shoe
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467. Shoes
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468. You make shoes?
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469. Shoes
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470. Soon as they get their union,
they'll send us packing
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471. It could be
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472. But you try and head out of here now,
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473. you be owing all that money like they say,
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474. company shoot you for a thief
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475. We just some slaves up here
They own our black asses
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476. Gentlemen
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477. Hey, Few, I got a question for you
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478. Yeah?
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479. Now, suppose they let us in this union
like they say
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480. We going to have to work
with them Italian people?
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481. The bosses have the guns
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482. - The miners have guns, too
- Maybe, maybe not
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483. I just don't want my family to starve
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484. The miners have families, too
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485. Let's vote
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486. - Renato?
- Yes
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487. - Clemente?
- No
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488. - Gianni?
- Hmm
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489. Come on, babies
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490. Come on and get it now Come on Come on
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491. Come on, there
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492. Come on Come on
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493. - Oh, boy
- All right
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494. - Taking a walk?
- Hi
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495. I'm going up to the coal camp
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496. I'll meet those new fellas
when they come off their shift
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497. You're doing union business, ain't you?
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498. How you like Mrs Radnor's?
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499. Well, there wasn't room
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500. I'm at the hotel now
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501. Isn't she a sourpuss though?
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502. Mr Kenehan!
They's evicting in town, Mr Kenehan
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503. It's Baldwins It's them Baldwin thugs
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504. This is town property
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505. Who are you?
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506. I'm the mayor
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507. Well, pleased to meet you
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508. My name is Bill Hickey
This is Tom Griggs
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509. We're carrying out an eviction
for Stone Mountain
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510. You can do what you want
up at the coal camp,
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511. but this is town property
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512. Stone Mountain holds the deeds
on these houses, Cabell
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513. You need a writ for eviction
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514. You the law around here?
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515. Well, good
Then you can help us
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516. Now, these people are trespassing
on company property
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517. They all signed a contract
that they wouldn't join any union
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518. You, uh, you Baldwin-Felts agency?
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519. That's right
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520. Presently employed
by the Stone Mountain Coal Company
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521. This is from Mr Turley here
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522. and this is from our boss,
Mr Thomas Felts
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523. I've met Mr Felts
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524. Well, good, we won't have any problem
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525. I wouldn't pee on him
if his heart was on fire
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526. Neither of these will do for a writ
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527. You'll have to see a judge in Charleston
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528. What if we ain't got time
to go to Charleston?
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529. Then you'd better find some
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530. Now, I can't do nothing
about what you pull outside town limits,
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531. but you bother these people
under my jurisdiction,
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532. I'll put you under arrest
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533. Yeah?
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534. You and whose army?
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535. All you men own a gun, go home and get it
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536. You're deputies as of now
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537. The rest of you people stick close
We'll need witnesses
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538. I'm giving you ten minutes to get those
people's belongings back in the house
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539. If the rest of the boys was here,
you wouldn't be so cocky
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540. If the rest of the boys was here,
I'd give you five minutes
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541. Now, move it
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542. You can't win, you know
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543. This is going to happen with you,
without you
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544. You can't stop it
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545. All right, boys, let's put it back in
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546. This ain't our day
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547. Attaboy, Sid!
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548. You all right, honey?
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549. Some of them turning yellow
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550. I never seen a lawman
buck a company gun before
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551. He's mostly a real nice feller, Sid
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552. I want to be mayor of a town,
not mayor of a cemetery
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553. Contention makes him nervous though
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554. We got a motion on the floor here
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555. And this is coal miners only
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556. All them in favor of keeping them scabs
out of the mines tomorrow morning
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557. using whatever force
it looks like is necessary
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558. raise your hands
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559. It's settled then
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560. Pass them peas, boy
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561. Pass the peas, Danny
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562. The boy deaf or dumb or what?
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563. Daniel ain't dumb Daniel's a preacher
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564. That right, boy? You a preacher?
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565. Who do you preach to, boy?
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566. Squirrels?
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567. Daniel preached at the meeting last night
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568. It was a good number of souls there
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569. You a soul saver, boy?
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570. You want to have a go at me and Griggsy
We ought to be a real challenge
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571. He's a squirrel preacher, is what
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572. Stands up on a stump out in the woods
and testifies to the holy rodent
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573. - Danny!
- You in a hurry to meet your maker, boy?
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574. - Ain't no guns allowed at table
- Sit down, Danny
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575. You do what your pretty mama says,
preacher
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576. You put that away now, mister
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577. Pack it away, Griggsy
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578. Look, we're going to be here a while,
little lady
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579. You can have it the easy way
or the hard way
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580. Now, how about them peas?
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581. Boy's getting on my nerves
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582. Oh, Lord!
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583. They told me they would talk
to the fellas
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584. I saw their faces last night, Joe
They wasn't buying it
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585. We're playing right
into the company's plans
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586. The men voted, Joe
Now, what more do you want?
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587. Sephus!
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588. I seen the lights on the hill
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589. They're sneaking them in
for a night shift
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590. Let's go, fellas
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591. Hillard told me
you was sent from the union
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592. Uh-huh
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593. I bet you seen hundreds of strikes
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594. Yeah
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595. I got thrown clear out of the missionary
the other night,
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596. talking the union from the pulpit
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597. Is we getting close?
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598. Up there
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599. Here they come!
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600. - They're down the hill!
- Over here!
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601. When our fellas put their lanterns out,
you just hit the dirt
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602. I think this belongs to you
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603. Yeah I'm with him
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604. Hooray for the dagos!
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605. All of you union men,
let's welcome our new brothers
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606. From now on
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607. Stone Mountain
don't move one piece of coal
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608. unless it's a union man that moves it
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609. Let's get out of here
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610. Glad you could join us
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611. In them days, the coal company
owned your camp houses,
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612. they owned your land,
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613. they owned most of the town
and the people who run it.
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614. If you wasn't for the company,
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615. there wasn't too manyplaces you could go
that was still on the map.
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616. The union didn't have too much
they could give to the people back then.
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617. "All we got in common is our misery, "
Joe Kenehan used to say,
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618. "and the least we can do is share it."
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619. Coming through!
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620. Come on
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621. What are you staring at?
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622. She got the evil eye, that one
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623. Oh, Mama
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624. Don't you let me catch you
peeking over there
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625. She got the evil eye if I ever seen it
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626. Well, what do we got here?
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627. We brung you some food
Mama stole it from the company
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628. Quiet, Danny
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629. Well, we can use everything you got
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630. You people are crazy
You ain't never going to win this thing
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631. Then what are you helping us for?
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632. I got work to do
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633. We appreciate your help
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634. I ain't never seen everybody
all together like this
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635. Company don't stand a chance
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636. Jessie
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637. What's the pitch?
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638. Well, I was just saying to the mayor here
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639. how we're all trying to do our jobs,
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640. you and me and him
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641. And nobody is paying us enough
to be dodging no bullets for it
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642. Um, now,
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643. Mr Felts has authorized me
to make it more attractive
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644. for you gentlemen to cooperate
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645. Town ain't for sale, mister
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646. What about you?
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647. Now, I figure that little show you were
putting on out there the other day
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648. was just for bargaining power
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649. Or are you going to be stupid too?
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650. Either of you shit hogs
lift a finger in town limits,
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651. I'll put you away
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652. Damn hillbillies always got to do it
the hard way
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653. You boys are going up against some
pretty big people
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654. Don't push your luck
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655. How's Jessie these days?
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656. Oh, she's okay, Sid
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657. You think they're bluffing?
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658. Nope
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659. Neither am I
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660. Now, the way the relief fund works
is kind of tricky
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661. 'cause of all the different situations
we got going around the country
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662. I mean, we're stretched real thin
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663. There's a lot of strategy
to who gets what and when
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664. I report to the strike committee,
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665. and they evaluate the progress
we're making here
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666. and the political situation,
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667. and then they release
the strike fund to us
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668. You mean they'd cut us off?
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669. - No, the amount that we get is based on—
- What if they think we're going to lose?
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670. Look, the strike committee considers
what's best for the union as a whole,
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671. - but that doesn't mean—
- Politics, boys
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672. Going to play union,
you got to play politics
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673. I'm sure Joe don't like that
no more than you do
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674. Come Come closer
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675. - I don't like it one damn bit
- Me neither
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676. I didn't get into this thing so I'd have
one more boss to tell me what to do
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677. The union isn't your boss, it's you
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678. Then why we got to wait
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679. for some hunkies up in Pittsburgh
to give us the word to move?
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680. 'Cause it's a democracy
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681. It's like the United States A democracy
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682. That's a joke
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683. Quiet
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684. Get down, they're shooting!
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685. Go away!
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686. - Stay put, they'll cut you down
- The hell with that!
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687. Keep your head down, son
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688. They're going to make a night of it
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689. It's ruined
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690. Sarah, come over here with that
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691. You got a little piece of bullet
left in there
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692. Company doctor said he wouldn't come out,
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693. but there's a fella in Pikeville
on the Kentucky side
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694. that'll treat union men on the sly
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695. He'll be here by noon
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696. Will he treat colored?
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697. If he treats union, he'll treat colored
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698. - More water, Danny
- Yes, ma'am
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699. You just hold this up there
against that real gentle
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700. - Don't press hard
- Hey, Elma
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701. you seen any of the men?
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702. Only them that's wounded
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703. - How's she doing?
- Not bad
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704. At least nobody got killed
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705. No thanks to you
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706. Take it easy, buddy
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707. Morning, Joe
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708. Hey, Bridey
You seen any of the fellas?
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709. Not a one
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710. He's real nice-looking
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711. He likes me, I can tell
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712. How?
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713. I just know men, that's all
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714. That'd make a cat laugh
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715. - If you want to make that kind of slop—
- Let me go, you old witch!
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716. Your food is for pigs!
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717. - No, even pigs wouldn't eat it
- This is the United States
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718. We do things different
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719. Listen to me
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720. - You can learn something here
- Your food is poison
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721. How do they eat that swill without dying?
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722. - Ladies, what's the problem?
- This idiot won't let me make polenta!
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723. I thought she'd make corn bread with it
You should see the slop she made
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724. She can poison her own people,
but half of this is mine
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725. Mrs Elkins, now, these people
got their own way of doing things
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726. Well, that is a waste of good cornmeal
if you ask me
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727. She makes up this porridgely kind of mess
I wouldn't feed it to the pigs
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728. Listen!
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729. The soldiers
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730. They're coming back to kill us
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731. Where's all the men gone to?
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732. That changes the whole picture
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733. What I'm saying is,
unions is fine for some things,
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734. but for other things,
a man's got to go on his own
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735. Of course, that's up to you
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736. Fausto?
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737. You make sindacato,
you do what the sindacato say
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738. I listen to Joe
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739. Few Clothes?
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740. We going to be shooting white folks,
right?
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741. That's the idea
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742. People hear about black folks
shooting white folks,
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743. no matter what it's for,
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744. there's going to be hell to pay
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745. You got a point
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746. Well, then
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747. if you gentlemen will excuse us
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748. Let's go
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749. You people have been put out
of Stone Mountain Mine housing
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750. and some of you have seen fit
to take along certain items
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751. of food, furniture, and clothing
that don't belong to you
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752. but belong to the company
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753. As of the day of the strike,
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754. your scrip ceased to be legal tender,
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755. meaning that any item of food,
clothing, and furniture
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756. not paid for in cash money
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757. must be turned over to me and my deputies
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758. I suggest that you all cooperate
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759. See, my boys
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760. they didn't get much sleep last night,
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761. so they're kind of jumpy
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762. Besides, we got the law on our side
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763. You ain't no law!
You got to slip around the real law
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764. You just got guns is all
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765. You just thugs—
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766. Yeah, maybe you're right, sonny
We just got guns
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767. You still got to hand in them goods
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768. Yellow scab-herder—
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769. Hillard, you get up from there
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770. Hey, you got a list of goods?
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771. Don't need one
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772. How you gonna know what belongs
to the company and what don't?
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773. He's the red, Hickey
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774. He's the agitator
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775. Everybody, see I don't got a gun on me?
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776. What good do you think
that's going to do you, red?
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777. You shoot me, folks'll know it was murder
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778. Well, that's some cold comfort
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779. Now, you listen to me, red
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780. We was hunting
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781. You folks are making
an awful lot of commotion
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782. You scared all the game away
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783. This your machine?
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784. Heard it last night too
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785. It's an offense to the ear
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786. Hold it, pops,
you're talking to the law here
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787. He ask you anything?
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788. Where'd you get that thing, pal?
The Spanish War?
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789. Nope
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790. War Between the States
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791. You all get in this machine
and get back into town where you belong
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792. Ain't but one law out here,
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793. and that's the law of nature
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794. Let's get the hell out of here
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795. Folks, try and keep the noise down,
you'll do fine
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796. Help yourself to the bird
and the rabbit
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797. but you see any hogs,
they's probably ours
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798. We'd appreciate it if you'd leave them be
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799. Good day to you
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800. Are you okay, Joe?
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801. Yeah, I'd be all right
if it weren't for my ribs
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802. Who were those people?
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803. Rossums, mostly, and a Shuttleworth
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804. - They miners?
- You never find them folks near a hole
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805. They had most of their land
stole by the company
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806. - They's hill people
- Foothill people, really
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807. Your genuine hill people
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808. They can be dangerous
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809. Now, the thing you got to remember, son,
is your fuse burns one foot per minute
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810. Make it too long, they might see it
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811. Make it too short, we'll all
be meeting you on the other side
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812. Damn it
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813. Air shaft Number 4
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814. Go out the back way
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815. We seem kind of lonely here tonight
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816. Where's all our other friends tonight,
Miss Elma?
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817. They get tired of the chuck or what?
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818. I think that old biddy went on strike,
laid down her teeth in protest
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819. They're just particular
about who they eat with
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820. What about you, Miss Elma?
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821. Are you particular?
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822. If Stone Mountain didn't hold
the lease here—
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823. If Stone Mountain didn't hold the lease,
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824. you'd be peddling poontang
down in Cinder Bottom,
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825. so just shut your mouth about it
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826. Where's the little preacher tonight?
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827. Bitch got no table manners
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828. Elma?
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829. You know where Danny is?
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830. No I don't know where anybody is
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831. - And nobody wants to tell me either
- Mmm
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832. You okay?
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833. Yeah, I'm just tired, is all
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834. I been working all day This place
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835. I been working
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836. The day they burned my husband, I started,
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837. and I been working, and it
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838. It don't never stop
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839. I get so tired,
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840. and there ain't nobody
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841. Look, it's hard
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842. It's hard being on your own
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843. You don't know nothing about it
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844. We're in business, buddy
Let's get the boys
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845. - What is it?
- Sounds like dynamite up at the mine
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846. Might be that Number 5 shaft
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847. Might be some shooting
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848. Hillard!
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849. Hillard!
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850. You seen my boy?
Anybody seen my boy, Hillard?
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851. That'll be the Baldwins
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852. Hillard!
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853. Anybody seen my Hillard?
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854. It's Baldwins up the hill!
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855. Shoot low, boys! Cut them down
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856. They're up behind us!
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857. Get him!
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858. You fellas get on out of here
I'll hold them back
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859. Reece! Reece, get up!
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860. Sephus, come on!
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861. Okay, boys, spread out
He's here somewhere
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862. - I got him! He's over here!
- Hold on, hold on, boys It's me
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863. Hold your fire, boys It's C E
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864. You all right?
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865. You'd better get back to camp
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866. Judas
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867. Hold his leg
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868. Hold it Hold
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869. I'm just going to pull this back
from your leg, boy
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870. Now, give me back that knife, Hillard
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871. Hey, what happened?
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872. We was sold
Them Baldwins come up from behind
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873. Known right where we was laying out
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874. They know'd when the men
was out of camp today too
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875. How's she feeling, buddy?
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876. You made it
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877. - I thought we'd lost you back there
- I got off a couple of rounds,
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878. buried myself in the leaves
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879. I seen Reece Hadley go down though
Sephus get back?
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880. I don't think so
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881. You see what happens, you pick up a gun?
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882. All I see is them niggers and dagos
weren't there tonight,
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883. and we was sold,
and somebody going to pay
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884. Something bad's happening out there
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885. - Those guns
- Hunting party, that's all
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886. Now, where was I?
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887. "Time to put all shyness "
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888. Time to put all shyness aside
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889. and admit to our heartfelt attraction
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890. I'm not sure how you spell "attraction "
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891. How about
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892. "heartfelt desires"?
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893. Are you sure you want to do this?
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894. Heartfelt desires,
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895. dearest Joseph
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896. Get out of here! Shoo!
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897. - Look at that Just covered with gore
- Dogs didn't do all that
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898. Are you drawing breath, son?
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899. Baldwins We was sold
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900. What's your name?
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901. Bosephus
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902. Sephus Purcell
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903. Kin to Nimrod Purcell?
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904. That's daddy's uncle
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905. Say some Baldwin agents took you?
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906. From behind
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907. None of them Purcells
ever was too bright
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908. Grab his ankles, missus,
and mind your dress
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909. He's bleeding like a stuck pig
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910. I found him, boys He's here
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911. It's Reece
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912. Got yourself a martyr
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913. I tried to stop this
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914. See any sign of Sephus?
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915. We'll maybe smell him before we see him
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916. They found somebody?
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917. Stay right here, honey
Don't want to look at that mess
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918. But I got something for Mr Kenehan
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919. I don't think he's in no mood
to be bothered right now
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920. I'll see he gets it
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921. Who is it?
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922. Oh, just some poor miner
whose troubles is finally over
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923. Don't look, honey
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924. I talked to Ellix
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925. He says your phonograph machine's
going to be fixed in a couple days now
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926. It's awful nice of you to do, Everett
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927. Well, we got to take care
of our favorite lady now, don't we?
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928. You been so generous
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929. thinking about me when that Mr Kenehan
got you all so busy with the union
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930. That Mr Kenehan is what I come
to talk to you about
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931. I got a suspicion he might not be
what he says he is
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932. What do you mean?
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933. Bridey, did you send Kenehan
some sort of letter?
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934. What do you want?
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935. No
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936. He wouldn't
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937. There's a whole crowd of fellas
standing around him
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938. I seen Kenehan laughing,
waving that letter
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939. So I come over to see what's so funny
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940. A lot of fellas?
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941. You mind if I have another drink, honey?
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942. It ain't pretty what I got to say
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943. He said some things, Bridey
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944. "She been following me around
ever since I got here
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945. trailing after me like a dog in heat,
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946. sniffing around my legs
like a brood bitch
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947. She don't wear no drawers", he says,
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948. "so she can be ready for whatever
stumbles down the pathway "
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949. He didn't!
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950. He didn't
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951. He said you done it
with one of the coloreds
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952. Lying bastard
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953. Bridey, I think it might be
worse than that
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954. I think he might be a spy
in with the coal operators
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955. But he's got the fellas so turned around
with all his talk
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956. I need for you to help me, Bridey
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957. and sometimes you got to tell
a little bit of a lie
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958. just to get the truth across
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959. We fight them with guns, we lose
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960. That's the whole damn story
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961. I'm not going to bullshit you fellas
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962. and tell you there won't ever come a time
when the people that own this state
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963. send the word down
to have us all murdered
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964. But if we don't stand together now
as workers
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965. we got no hope at all
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966. Help me up
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967. You going somewhere?
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968. This is miners' business,
and you ain't no miner
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969. You two come along
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970. So, um
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971. last night he comes up here, and, uh
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972. he's all drunk and everything,
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973. and I says how I didn't want
to have nothing to do with him, and
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974. and I would call some of you fellas
for help,
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975. and he says that all of you was
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976. taken care of
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977. Taken care of, huh?
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978. When I seen that there
wasn't no help, I
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979. He, uh, kind of
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980. forced me, he— he forced me
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981. - C E
- Mmm?
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982. That's okay
You better hear this firsthand
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983. Go ahead, honey What happened then?
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984. And afterwards he thrown money on the bed,
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985. like I were some kind of a whore
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986. You done just fine, honey
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987. Now, why don't you go sit outside
for a minute
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988. while we figure out
what we're going to do about this?
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989. So he don't have no sense with women
So what?
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990. You know how Bridey builds things up
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991. Take a look at this that our friend
left laying on the floor last night
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992. Baldwin-Felts agency
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993. What it say?
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994. It's a death warrant, is what,
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995. for Mr Joseph Kenehan
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996. So it's "Good-bye, Mr Kenehan" tonight
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997. The miners?
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998. How'd you manage that?
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999. That tramp that goes to meet
the passenger train?
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1000. - Yeah?
- Seems she's got the eye for Kenehan
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1001. So he put it in her head that Kenehan's
been bad-mouthing her all around town
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1002. He's got her down there right now
crying to the miners,
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1003. and he's got these papers from Bluefield
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1004. I didn't leave my Colt like this
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1005. You spying little bastard!
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1006. What'd you hear, huh?
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1007. - What did you hear?
- Nothing
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1008. Horseshit! Hit him, Bill!
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1009. See this medal?
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1010. You know how I won this,
preacher boy, huh?
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1011. I was sitting alone in a ditch in France,
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1012. and this kraut jumps in right next to me
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1013. And I took my bayonet,
and I stuck him right in the face
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1014. And then another jumps in,
and I stick him too
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1015. And another and another and another
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1016. They just kept coming, one at a time,
all night long
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1017. And in a little bit, I got to worried
that they weren't all dead,
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1018. so I stuck them all again
a couple times just to make sure
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1019. And in the morning
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1020. they said that I was a war hero
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1021. Well, I'm going to stay close
to you tonight, preacher boy
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1022. And you let one wrong word fly,
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1023. and I'm going to put one in your skull,
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1024. and I'll do the same for your pretty mama
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1025. You know I ain't lying, don't you, boy?
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1026. Yes, sir
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1027. Man who draws the short straw
gets to do the job,
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1028. and word don't travel beyond this room
about who it is
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1029. The rest of us will want a good alibi
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1030. I figure in that prayer meeting tonight,
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1031. right under the preacher's nose
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1032. Welcome to the union, son
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1033. What's the story?
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1034. Ludie heard that the Baldwins
was coming after you tonight,
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1035. and I'm supposed to stick by you
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1036. You got the shit detail again, huh?
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1037. You all right, Danny?
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1038. You got your sermon memorized?
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1039. I bet he don't know any more scripture
than I do
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1040. And that ain't a whole hell of a lot,
is it, Griggsy?
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1041. You know any?
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1042. I never got no further than,
"In the beginning was the word "
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1043. Guess we both doomed to the hot place
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1044. The Lord relies on little shits
like this one to spread his word,
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1045. I don't want no truck with heaven
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1046. And as for hell, well,
we been to West Virginia!
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1047. What in God's name you doing, son?
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1048. I just got your leaks all stopped up,
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1049. and here you're trying
to bust them open again
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1050. I got to get down there They got to know
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1051. You ain't going nowhere,
unless it's in a pine box
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1052. Where's your sense?
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1053. I got to
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1054. Wish those fellas would get here
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1055. Huh?
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1056. If they're coming, I wish they'd hurry up
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1057. I don't want any more shooting
in the woods
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1058. You ever use one of those?
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1059. 10th Cavalry in Cuba back in '98
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1060. San Juan Hill
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1061. Pretty rough down there?
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1062. Did what I had to
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1063. It true you're a red?
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1064. Yeah, I suppose it is
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1065. Then how come you don't carry a gun?
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1066. Well, we carry little round bombs
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1067. Don't you read the papers?
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1068. I want to tell you tonight
about the blackness in the heart of man
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1069. Going to warn you about the many
and devious ways in which Satan
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1070. will hide from you the truth
of who your real friends are
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1071. I'll do it with a story
from the patriarchs
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1072. Now, we all know about Joseph
and how out of all Jacob's 12 children,
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1073. he was the smartest and the smoothest,
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1074. and how his brothers got so jealous,
they pulled off his coat of many colors
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1075. and whooped on him
and left him out to be sold into slavery
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1076. But Joseph was not your ordinary fella,
even for biblical times
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1077. He had a special way with him,
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1078. a way of looking
at the grand scheme of things
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1079. So when this fella Potiphar
bought him for a slave,
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1080. Joseph just smiled and vowed
he was going to be a good one,
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1081. making the best of a bad situation
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1082. He put his heart to his work and was
honest and friendly in his dealings,
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1083. and before you knew it, he was just about
running Potiphar's households and fields
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1084. and all his businesses for him
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1085. The only trouble was Potiphar's wife
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1086. Now, she was what you might call
a loose woman
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1087. When I was in Leavenworth,
there was a bunch of Mennonites
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1088. in because they wouldn't fight in the war
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1089. It's against their religion
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1090. It's also against their religion
to shave their beards
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1091. or wear buttons on their clothes,
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1092. and they was being forced to do both
by the prison guards
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1093. So, they refused to work
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1094. and they went on a strike,
right there in Hell's Half Acre
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1095. They was handcuffed to the bars
of a cell house,
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1096. eight hours a day for two full weeks
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1097. They were put with their arms up
like this
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1098. so's they had to stand on their toes
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1099. or those cuffs would cut
into their wrists
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1100. Can't nobody stay on their toes
eight hours
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1101. So, pretty soon their fingers
would start to swell up
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1102. They'd turn blue,
and then they'd crack open
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1103. Blood would run down their arms
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1104. eight hours a day, day after day
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1105. And still they wouldn't work
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1106. Still they tore the buttons
off their uniforms
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1107. every time they were sewed back on
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1108. They tore them with their teeth because
their hands wouldn't close no more
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1109. So now I don't claim a thing for myself
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1110. But them fellas,
they never lifted a gun in their lives
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1111. and you couldn't find any braver
in my book
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1112. Wish them fellas would get here
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1113. Also in Potiphar's employ at this time
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1114. were a couple of spies
from one of his enemies
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1115. Fellas that wanted to bring him down
in the world
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1116. and get their hands
on his fields and houses
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1117. They seen the want and lust
in Mrs Potiphar,
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1118. and seen it would be good
for their purposes
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1119. to get shed of young Joseph
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1120. So they come to Potiphar's wife
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1121. She calls Joseph in,
and she asks him one more time,
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1122. "Joseph, will you lie with me?"
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1123. And he says, "No, ma'am, I won't "
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1124. She sets up a ruckus
and grabs hold of his garment he's wearing
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1125. and rends it in two
before he can get clear
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1126. Potiphar runs in then with his guards,
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1127. and she's bawling her eyes out
and shaking like a leaf
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1128. "Your servant, Joseph," she says,
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1129. "he come in here
and tried to make me lie with him
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1130. Only when I called out, he fled,
leaving this here garment as evidence
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1131. And not only that," she says,
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1132. "he been spying and plotting against you
with your enemies
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1133. He means to take over here
and have you killed "
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1134. Potiphar had no reason
to misbelieve his wife
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1135. Joseph was a slave and a foreigner
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1136. So he gathered up his servants
and household workers,
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1137. and they went and slew Joseph dead
Copy !req
1138. Cut him from gut to gizzard
and left him bleeding in the street
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1139. And Io, they never learned
of Mrs Potiphar's lies
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1140. and went to their maker, unrepentant,
with innocent blood on their hands
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1141. Draw your own conclusions
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1142. - Getting awful late
- Shh
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1143. You hear something?
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1144. - No You?
- Yeah, I think I did
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1145. Like somebody moaning
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1146. Maybe it's the fellas
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1147. I think we best go out there
and have a look
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1148. Few Few Clothes Few
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1149. Who's that?
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1150. It's Hillard
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1151. Meeting's been called off
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1152. Well, we better get back to camp, huh?
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1153. Wait a minute
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1154. Well, at least we didn't waste a trip
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1155. C E! C E Lively!
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1156. - Do something!
- No way It won't spread
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1157. - Is C E inside?
- No such luck
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1158. Let's find that son of a bitch
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1159. Mind them windows!
They're going to blow!
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1160. How come they waste more food
in one day
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1161. than a poor worker's family
has on their table in a week?
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1162. Now, let me ask you,
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1163. whose sweat was it
that went into building those mansions?
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1164. Once they seen
how they'd almost done an innocent man,
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1165. it was like Joe couldn't say no wrong.
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1166. It's the workers, that's who
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1167. We moved out into Mingo County then,
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1168. spreading the word about the union,
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1169. spreading like wildfire
over to Red Jacket,
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1170. to Ragland and Delbarton,
all up and down the Tug Fork River,
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1171. bringing the union out
to all the folks that needed help,
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1172. putting the spirit into them and trying
to shut down the whole southwest field.
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1173. They been helping themselves to our land
and our labor for too damn long
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1174. Joe Kenehan said how
there was a new day coming,
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1175. and sometimes I could just about see it.
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1176. But it were a dangerous living
for a union man,
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1177. and you didn't dare turn your back.
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1178. It was hard times,
and it was hungry times too.
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1179. The union relief was spread thin,
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1180. and the hope of a new day
can feed your soul,
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1181. but leave your belly rumbling.
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1182. Scoot
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1183. They crowd us on a boat like animals
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1184. Then they shoot at us
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1185. And for what?
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1186. To starve just like in Milan
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1187. Where have you been?
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1188. Who gave you that?
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1189. Lady?
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1190. Since there's just me and Hillard,
and you got all these little ones
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1191. well
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1192. You know what to do with this?
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1193. Hillard brung it in
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1194. Rabbit
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1195. It's for you
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1196. You're giving it to us?
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1197. I ain't going to watch
no babies go hungry
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1198. Now, here, you go on You take it
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1199. Here's some navy beans
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1200. and these here is ramps
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1201. Now, you can cook with these
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1202. They'll put a taste in your stew
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1203. Garlic
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1204. Anyhow
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1205. Would you like to sit with us?
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1206. Well, I
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1207. figure we's all in this together
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1208. You sure got some pretty babies
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1209. - Who's your favorite pitcher?
- Hod Eller He's from Logan County
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1210. You get to play ball much?
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1211. When the mines were open
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1212. Joe?
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1213. - Yeah?
- You ever kill anybody?
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1214. What brought that up?
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1215. Bet Sid has
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1216. He were in the war
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1217. Well, all I saw was workers
killing workers
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1218. and there wasn't any point in it
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1219. They thrown you in jail
'cause you wouldn't go?
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1220. Them two years kept me
from killing some poor stiff
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1221. that got pushed out on a battlefield
by rich folks and politicians
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1222. and they were worth it
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1223. It's getting dark, Danny
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1224. You'd better go get that coal
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1225. See there,
right there by the railroad trestle?
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1226. That's where Cap Hatfield
and his boy Joe Glenn killed three men
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1227. Boy weren't but 13
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1228. Used a Winchester
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1229. You think it hurts much, a bullet?
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1230. Beats dying in a damn coal mine
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1231. Boy weren't but 13 year old, Joe Glenn
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1232. - He must be in there
- Coleman?
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1233. He always sleeps with the lights on
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1234. We just got to be quiet is all
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1235. Let's get the little bastards!
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1236. Over here
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1237. - Grab him
- Cut him off!
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1238. Well, well, what we got here?
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1239. Smarts a little, don't it, boy?
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1240. Hillard, right?
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1241. Now, how about you give us the names
of your ring leaders up in Logan?
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1242. Give us five names, boy, that's all
Five names and we'll let you go
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1243. That's fair, isn't it?
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1244. Never
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1245. Griggsy?
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1246. Talk to us, boy
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1247. Talk to us!
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1248. I'll rot in hell first
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1249. Have it your way
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1250. Mr Lively
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1251. Boy, I sentence you to death
for the crime of stealing company property
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1252. and being a dirty Bolshevist union man
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1253. You got ten seconds to talk
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1254. Talk
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1255. Whew, what a smell
Boy dirtied his diapers
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1256. We want names, son
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1257. I can't, I sworn on a Bible
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1258. Then we're going to have
to get down to it, son
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1259. - Use the razor
- Hold him, boys
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1260. Just a little nick, boy
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1261. Get it off your chest, son
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1262. Plyant Mounts, Bill Mahan,
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1263. Asa Radnor, J T Keadle
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1264. Five Give us five, boy
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1265. And Harley Shilton
Copy !req
1266. - Kill him
- No!
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1267. Where do them fellas he named live?
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1268. Clay Hill
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1269. Where's that?
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1270. It's a cemetery
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1271. Them are all fellas was killed
in a gas fire, five, six year ago
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1272. Nothing like a young boy dying
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1273. to stir things up
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1274. Baldwins coming into town tomorrow,
Kenehan
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1275. You fellas have any idea
what's waiting for us?
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1276. You mean they didn't tell you?
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1277. I just seen a line in the papers—
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1278. "Opportunity for red-blooded American men
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1279. Immediate openings, high pay,
travel, chance for advancement
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1280. Apply Baldwin-Felts
and write your own ticket "
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1281. When the natives get restless someplace,
they put that out
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1282. Hook some more cannon fodder
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1283. Ever hear of the Hatfields
and the McCoys, son?
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1284. Yeah, of course I have
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1285. This Matewan is their stomping grounds
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1286. They'll put a bullet in your brain
as soon as look at you
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1287. Sid, we got authorization
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1288. to put these miners
off company property here in town
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1289. Not from me, you don't
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1290. And we also got a warrant for your arrest,
you give us any trouble
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1291. This ain't worth shit, and you know it
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1292. One way or another,
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1293. we're going to carry out these evictions
tomorrow morning
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1294. Gentlemen
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1295. They come to kill me
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1296. Hillard was my friend
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1297. When I first come down to the mines,
it was Hillard shown me what to do
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1298. He was a good coal miner,
a good union man
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1299. and he always took care of his mama
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1300. I don't know how they could have
done him like they did
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1301. All he wanted to do was live decent,
that's all
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1302. Sometimes people say how God willed it,
how everything is his plan
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1303. Well
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1304. I don't think he planned on Hillard
laying here amongst all these Elkinses
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1305. Not this young in his life
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1306. I think all God plans is we get born,
and we got to take it from there
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1307. So you rest in peace, Hillard
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1308. You rest easy 'cause we're going
to take up where you left off
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1309. Amen
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1310. You going to tell us
to turn the other cheek, Joe?
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1311. Shooting is what they want now
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1312. And maybe it's what we want too
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1313. You expect too much of people, Joe
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1314. You're still after that one big union,
but most of us
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1315. we can't see past this holler
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1316. I need to talk to the men
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1317. It wouldn't be decent now
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1318. I'll call a meeting in the morning
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1319. first thing
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1320. Pass the word to stay out
from town tomorrow
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1321. Something up?
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1322. Got a feeling
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1323. You know how white folks is
when they gets all excited
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1324. How is she?
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1325. How would you be?
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1326. The company men came today
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1327. Armed to the teeth
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1328. God have mercy on us
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1329. Nothing's going to bring Hillard back,
you know
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1330. Danny, I came here to help
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1331. Sure you did
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1332. First people come here to help us
with some money
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1333. Next we know, we got no land
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1334. Then they say they're going to help us
with a job and a place to live,
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1335. and they stick us in some damn coal camp
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1336. and let us dig out their mines
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1337. Now you come here to help us
bring in the new day
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1338. Well, Hillard ain't going to see
no new day
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1339. We had about as much help as we can stand
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1340. We got to take care of ourselves
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1341. We got to take care of each other
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1342. Joe Joe The men go to town
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1343. Sid?
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1344. No need for you to be in on this
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1345. It's my town too They're my people
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1346. You all have no right to come
to this here town with all these people
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1347. and drawing guns and terrorizing them
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1348. The writs you have are not valid
for this town
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1349. - You can't get away with this
- No!
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1350. No Oh!
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1351. Jesus, don't shoot me!
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1352. I just wanted to talk
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1353. I just wanted to talk
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1354. I can't feel my legs
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1355. Sephus!
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1356. There was a trial,
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1357. but there wasn't nobodygoing to pass
guilty on Sid Hatfield in Mingo County.
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1358. Sid got married
to Mayor Testerman's widow,
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1359. and then the Baldwins,
they caught him unarmed
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1360. walking up the steps
of the McDowell County Courthouse.
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1361. They shot 15 bullets into him,
right in broad daylight.
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1362. Then C.E. Lively stepped in
and put one right through his skull.
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1363. Wasn't even a trial on that one.
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1364. That were the start
of the great Coalfield War,
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1365. and us miners took the worst of it,
like Joe said we would.
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1366. "It's just one big union the whole world
over, " Joe Kenehan used to say.
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1367. And from the day of the Matewan Massacre,
that's what I preached.
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1368. That was my religion.
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1369. We buried Joe Kenehan with our own.
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1370. My mama,
she thought he wouldn't never stay,
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1371. but now he's with us for always,
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1372. laying up here
in these West Virginia hills.
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