Tytuł: Coal owner and pitmans wife

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   A dialog I'll tell you as true as my life
  Between a coal owner and a poor pitman's wife
  As she was a traveling all on the highway
  She met a coal owner and this she did say
  
  Derry down, down, down derry down
  
  Good morning Lord Firedamp, this woman she said
  I'll do you no harm, Sir, so don't be afraid
  If you'd been where I'd been the most of my life
  You wouldn't turn pale at a poor pitman's wife
  
  Then where do you come from, the owner he cries
  I come from Hell, the woman replies
  If you come from hell, then tell me right plain
  How you contrived to get out again
  Aye the way I got out, the truth I will tell
  They're turning the poor folk all out of Hell
  This to make room for the rich wicked race
  For there is a great number of them in that place
  
  And the coal owners' selves is the next on command
  To arrive into Hell, as I understand
  For I heard the old Devil say as I came out
  The coal-owners all had received their rout
  
  Then how does the old Devil behave in that place
  Oh Sir, he is cruel to the rich wicked race
  He is far more uncrueller than you can suppose
  Even like a mad bull with a ring through his nose
  
  Good woman, says he, I must bid you farewell
  You give me a dismal account about Hell
  If this be all true that you say unto me
  I'll be home like a whippet and with my poor men agree
  If you be a coal owner, Sir, take my advice
  Agree with your men and give them a good price
  For and if you do not, I know very well
  You'll be in great danger of going to Hell