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Corn in the crib wonât turn your dollar green
A dollar wonât get you high
Some days a drop is all a body needs
Some days the bottle drains dry
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Pockets of change donât drive my worry down
Diamonds donât make me shine
Itâs a short life and a long time underground
Iâll trade you money for wine
Iâve seen this town from a long black Lincoln, boys
Back when copper was king
Ten years I stood on the same street corner, boys
I never want for a thing
CHORUS
Wild were the nights when I was rolling, boys
No hunger unsatisfied
Feared was my name in Elko County, boys
Now they just walk on by
The banker, he spares a quarter for my cup
His troubleâs deeper than mine
That way of life, boys, there ainât gold enough
Iâll trade you money for wine
See how the rain washes the sulfur dust
Off to the wide blue sea
Freed from the rock, the copper flies to where
No miner ever may see
Shallow your cares, in vain your industry
So says the wide blue sea
I never burden God on your account
Donât waste your prayers on me
Iâve seen a man of wealth and family
Scrimp till his hairâs gone grey
Laid in the ground just like Iâm gonna be
He might have drunk it away
CHORUS
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