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Ashley |
Jack Bowman |
Carrie Osborne |
Performance: Jack Bowman (dressed in Bib overalls and wearing a miners hat and carbide light) reads the poem that is written on a piece of flash paper. Carrie Osborne and Ashley swallow swords during the performance. Between "the towers fell" and "fire from the sky" the flash paper is ignited and the remainder of the poem is recited.
| The mine The mine The canaries whine They do not sing They do not fly Deep Deep In the mine The miners The miners Sing their song Crying for the sun Singing with the pick Deep in the mine Down, down, down Other bugs Crawling on higher ground Working their life For the family they love Making the monuments For the owners above Forcing the miner Deeper, deeper deep In the cold Without a break Without sleep Their life away For the family they love
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Building the monuments For the owners above More and more monuments Forcing the miners Deeper, deeper, deep Deep in the mine Down, down, down Other bugs On higher ground For ever and ever Digging, deeper, deeper deep Till the canaries stop And the miners sleep
For a thousand years And a thousand more The species cried The monuments stood The workers died One day The gray dust blew The towers fell Fire from the sky Instead of hell Now the monuments Rust and dust The species at its best The miners sleep And the workers rest
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