## Metadata
**Caption:** traditional pop, folk-tinged, narrative lyrics, slow-mid, 90 bpm, male vocal
**BPM:** 110
**Duration:** 149.0s
**Key:** G major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
Born in the shadow of a smokestack tall
Learned to swing a pickaxe before I learned to crawl
Down in that shaft where the sun don't shine
Load another wagon on the company line

[chorus]
Diggin' deep, another ton, another day
Diggin' deep, don't matter what they pay
Sign my name to another debt I'll never clear
Bound to this mountain till they carry me from here

[verse]
Twenty years I've hauled this rock from dark to dark
Traded my youth for a whistle and a mark
The ledger says I'm owing more than I can earn
Every dollar that I make, right back to them I turn

[chorus]
Diggin' deep, another ton, another day
Diggin' deep, don't matter what they pay
Sign my name to another debt I'll never clear
Bound to this mountain till they carry me from here

[bridge]
Some men are built of iron, some men built of stone
I'm built from every shift I've worked down in that hole
No use complainin', ain't no other way
This mountain owns my body till my dying day

[chorus]
Diggin' deep, another ton, another day
Diggin' deep, don't matter what they pay
Sign my name to another debt I'll never clear
Bound to this mountain till they carry me from here