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The Uncle has been left alone in an abandoned shaft 
With the light of a helmet and the taste of a bitter drink 
Who will give him his coca, who will light the candles 
Who will dance your tinkuy, in bad and good? 
The miners are going in search of another destination 
And the Uncle has been left alone looking for the children  
 
There is a ‘Tio’, the uncle of the mine. They always say,  “Outside we are with God, in there we are with the  devil.” Because every person who enters the mine, it is  as if they are delivering their life to the devil. No matter  what, they have to enter into the mine with faith to the  devil, not to God. Because they always [have faith in  God] on the outside, but inside it’s more risky.  – Cathy

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