====== I Can Hew ======

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T:I Can Hew
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:E minor
EF | G2 E2 | BB B<B | A2 GA | B>B B2 |
w:I can | hew boys, | I can hack it | out.  I can | hew the coal, |
AG ED | E2 EF | G2 E2 | BB B<B |
w: I can dance and | shout.  I can | hew boys, | coal that's black and |
A2 GA | BB B2 | AG ED | E2 |]
w:fine, I'm a | col-lier lad, | work-ing down the mine.</abc>

**Chorus:**
//I can hew boys, I can hack it out 
I can hew the coal, I can dance and shout. 
I can hew boys, coal that's black and fine, 
I'm a collier lad, working down the mine. //

1. On Saint Monday's day, it's well I do admire, 
When I sits at home by me own coal fire. 
Then it's off to the pub, for a glass or two 
For to work on a Monday, that would never do. 

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2. Well I likes my whiskey and I likes my beer. 
I'll drink fourteen pints and I'll not feel queer. 
I can hold my liquor good as any man. 
And I'll dance and sing as long as I can. 

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3. Well my boy's fourteen, he's a strappin' lad 
And he'll go to the pits soon, just like his dad. 
And when Friday comes, we'll pick up our pay. 
And we'll drink together, to round out the day. 

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4. And its when I'm dead, oh I know full well, 
I'll not go to heaven, I am bound for hell. 
And my pick and shovel, old Nick he will admire, 
And he'll set me hewin' coal for his own hell fire. 

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