Change

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CHANGE!
A tribute to the miners of my town

When the sun first shone its rays on earth, its energy turned green;

Then that energy decayed and sank and could no more be seen.

And seams of hard black gold were formed beneath the earth's thin crust

And Miners came and dug it out saying 'In this coal we trust'

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Then Newcastle arose above the workings down below

And the populace, in wonder, saw it prosper, saw it grow,

And little heed was paid to all the tireless grimy men

Who ripped the coal out of the earth and made it live again

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And the coal fired smoking chimneys and the coal fired puffing trains

And the Miners toiled and laboured and got little for their pains,

While the air grew clogged and dirty and the Miners shirts were torn

And still the city prospered. A community was born.

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Now the age of coal is ending and we're harnessing the sun

And the windmills turn above us and a new age has begun.

But let us still remember, as we speak of high renown,

That the Miners came before us and the Miners built our town.

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ELECTRIC SHOCKS!

A hundred thousand lightning bolts strike the earth, they say,

Every single minute of every single day!

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Lightning kills a thousand people every single year,

Which proves to me that thunderstorms are something I should fear!

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Six hundred and fifty volts are in the shock from electric eels!

And I refuse to test that and find out how it feels!

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Electricity travels at the speed of light and messages from the brain

Reach the muscles faster than the speed of a speeding train.

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