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Company Town

from Same Shirt, Different Day by Rodney Rice

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Headed across the river to the old train track
Jump the first ole engine that just ain't coming back
I been around this town for way to long have to pack up my bags and be moving on

I'll ride that engine on down to the mine
send some coal out of ole number nine
swinging that hammer from dawn all day
at the end of the week I collect my pay

That's the way that the world goes around
When you stuck inside of a company town
making a dollar you saving to die
breaking your back down in that old coal mine

Just like my daddy and his daddy too
I work this mine till my days are through
Driving drift is all that I know
Lord take me when its my time to go

I hang that brass tag on the wall
I pray to the lord the back don't fall
and if I don't get to see the light of day
down in that seam my soul will stay

That's the way that the world goes around
When you stuck inside of a company town
making a dollar you saving to die
breaking your back down in that old coal mine

Mister Massey what have you done
you took fathers, brothers and sons
Wives are crying forever alone
waiting on husbands who'll never be home

We take pride in all that we do
gave our lives to put the lights on for you
​so Hollywood you don't understand
all the troubles of coal mining man

That's the way that the world goes around
When you stuck inside of a company town
making a dollar you saving to die
breaking your back down in that old coal mine

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from Same Shirt, Different Day, released October 23, 2020
Company Town
Vocal, Acoustic Guitar: Rodney
Drums: Rick Richards
Bass & Hammond B3: Mark Hallman
Wurlitzer: Austin De Lone
Electric & Acoustic Guitars: Andre Moran
Trumpet: Erik Telford
Tenor sax: Marcus Cardwell

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Rodney Rice knows just how to capture the fleeting glimmers of an emotional moment in life and turn them into songs that evoke our own feelings of despair and hope, loss and love. Rice delivers his lyrics with a knowing nod and wink and a twinkle of the eye to the difficulties we encounter in our daily lives, and creates memorable characters in his songs whose foibles remind us of folks we know. ... more

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