The Ballade of Floyd Collins
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It was in the winter of 1925 and Kentucky was the state A little ways off I-65 in a place they call Sand Cave A man was 60 feet underground when one of his feet got stuck That's all it took to bring him down, he'd run into a string of bad luck He'd got himself in a narrow space only two feet wide Floyd Collins was his name and Sand Cave is where he died Within two days there was a crowd with a harness and plans to pull him out A lot of people they just stood around, not too many had the nerve to go down Then a reporter named "Skeets" Miller arrived to see what this fuss was all about He was small enough to fit inside so they put him to work underground He brought a lightbulb and put it over Floyd's head, a crowbar, a jack, and some wood He dug until his fingers bled he did all that he could Floyd Collins went into the ground in search of another cave 100, 000 People tried for 27 days straight To pull him up out of the grave consequence Of one mistake After digging gravel for 30 hours straight Skeets collapsed from fatigue Floyd he had a lot to say, and what a dead man says you can believe I know I've cheated i know I've lied I've done some things that was wrong It's not that I'm afraid to die, it's just taking so damn long The very next day that conversation was on the front page of the New York Times Ain't it strange how an entire nation can get caught up in the fate of one man's life Floyd Collins went into the ground in search of another cave 100, 000 people tried for 27 days straight To pull him up out of the grave consequence Of one mistake
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