Steve Earle & The Dukes - Devil Put the Coal in the Ground
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Steve Earle & The Dukes - “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground” from the 2020 album Ghosts of West Virginia on New West Records.
In 2010, the Upper Big Branch coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia exploded, killing twenty-nine of the thirty-one miners present at the time. It's been called one of the worst mining disasters in American history. And it inspired the latest album from veteran singer/songwriter Steve Earle, titled Ghosts of West Virginia.
The project originated with the off-Broadway play Coal Country, written by playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, who approached Earle to compose the score. While the play had to cancel its run in New York City due the coronavirus, Earle will release the songs as his 20th studio album on May 22nd via New West Records.
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| 0:00.0 | The Devil put the Devil with the cold on the ground |
| 0:13.0 | Never put the cold on the ground |
| 0:15.0 | We've buried it deep it'll never be found |
| 0:18.0 | Devil put the cold on the ground |
| 0:20.0 | said that'll be a dime someday that'll be a diamond someday |
| 0:24.0 | it'll be a diamond someday |
| 0:26.0 | we were long gone and dead in a way |
| 0:29.0 | that'll be a diamond someday |
| 0:31.0 | well the devil would have cold on the ground, |
| 0:34.0 | devil with the cold on the ground, |
| 0:36.0 | said the double dog dare get the father man down, |
| 0:39.0 | never put the cold in the ground. Well, a good law give me two hands, good law give me two hands, |
| 0:57.0 | says you an animal, is your man, a good law give me two hands. |
| 1:01.0 | Lord give her than Give her then it taketh away. |
| 1:04.0 | Lord give her than it taketh away. |
| 1:07.0 | The devil's in the same damn hold of a day. |
| 1:10.0 | Lord, give her than it taketh away. |
| 1:12.0 | Where the devil put a cold ground. |
| 1:15.0 | The devil was a cold ground. |
| 1:17.0 | To the double dog dare you're a follow man down. |
| 1:20.0 | Never put the cold in the brand. Oh, yeah. Oh, we love in a morning and free. |
| 2:05.0 | We live in a morning and free. |
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