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I agree.Page 26 PITTSBURGH - ITEM 13 BYRNES BEGINS TO SING AND HIS VOICE FADES AS HE GOES DEEPER INTO THE MINE. CUT TO: CAMERA FACING BYRNES AS HE WALKS TOWARD IT. THE SONG IS LOUDER AND LOUDER AS HE APPROACHES. (LIGHT UP HIS FACE) HE SINGS A FULL STANZA ON MIKE THEN .. CUT TO: COAL CAR PASSING CAMERA. IT ROLLS LOUDLY BY THEN FADE AUDIO AS WE FOLLCW IT INTO MINE. THE COAL CAR IS OUT OF SIGHT NOW. CUT TO: That's only yesterday on God's calendar when the sun was down here blistering the hide of a bronfcasauras?╟≤ You are eaves- dropping on the backyard of pre- historic animals. A sixty foot depth of trees they trod made one foot of coal. Hundreds of ballads and work songs of miners were recorded in mines like these by folk-lorist George Korson. They are living history, these minstrel of the mine patch and the coal dust on the ip fiddles is now in the bins of the perma- nent collection of the Library of Congress. Jerry Byrnes was sing- ing "Down in a Coal Mine," the most celebrated of all miners' songs for 75 years.