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Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six-foot-six and weighed two-forty-five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to big John
November 1942. "Pittsburgh (vicinity). Montour No. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Coal miner waiting to go underground." Medium-format nitrate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Could there have been a more appropriate photographer?
Yet owes his soul to the company store and is just another day older and deeper in debt.
I must have listened to that 45 hundreds of times with my brother on the old hi-fi. Jimmy Dean and Johnny Horton singles giving us stories of other places and times. Good times when we were young and not jaded by everyday life.
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