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Song Information:

My Wobbly anthem. Instrumentation is guitar, lap dulcimer, acoustic bass, and thigh slappin', all recorded with my PG 48. I think the recording really evokes the rainy Saturday afternoon it was recorded on.

Song Lyrics:

Faint blue glow in the eastern sky
Sheet of frost lies on the ground
Man comes along, shovel in his hand
Another comes along behind with a gun
There's work to be done

Two black mules hitched to a sled
Stack of lumber at Coal Creek's head
Fifty miles down where the ground turns red
Where Cherokee feet have lately tread
There's work to be done

Young men holler and the old men grunt
Fell them trees, dig that shunt
Let that black old coal dust fill the air
Keep pushing 'till there's nothing there
There's work to be done

Build a little town, tear it down
Build a bunch of cities all around
Build up in the air, Build down in the ground
Put numbers on the poeple so they can be found
There's work to be done

Now, life is short and dreams die hard
Some folks never get off the yard
I live in a world I didn't make
I guess I'll take what I can take
When there's work to be done
There's work to be done
There's work to be done.