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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:51 PM
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What 60's song defines "coal" to you?
Besides "Workin' In A Coal Mine"...
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:53 PM
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1. Anything by Tom Jones.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:55 PM
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2. "Big John" by Jimmy Dean.
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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:56 PM
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3. Yuo need to open it up to the 70's
Coal Miners Daughter!
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:58 PM
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4. 5 oçlock world...
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 06:59 PM by DAGDA56
...by the Vogues. Or anything by Sam Cooke.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:04 PM
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5. You load 16 tons
What do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:17 PM
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8.  But
that was 1956.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:24 PM
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10. Whoops! My bad.
I didn't notice the 60's part!
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:06 PM
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6. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Well, coal is carbon, and so is diamond.

Maybe the next cover will be "Lucy in the Sky with Buckyballs".

--bkl
Without Carbon, life itself would be impossible.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:08 PM
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7. Coal Miners Daughter
Is that 60's? dunno and I don't care. Sissy Spacek is cute though (at least she used to be).
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Buck Turgidson Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:21 PM
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9. Paradise - by John Prine
(since we're straying from the 60's)

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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Norbert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:28 PM
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11. Big Bad John
Eccept I don't know if the story took place in a coal mine.
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argyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:35 PM
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12. Big John.In the 90's "Harlan Man" Steve Earle.Why limit this to the 60's?
There really aren't that many songs about coal anyway.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:36 PM
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13. Timothy
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:37 PM
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14. Canary in a Coalmine
OK, so it's an 80's song. Shoot me, who knows any songs about coal!!

:evilgrin:
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