King Coal Lyrics

chorus:Oh we’re back in the valleyOh we’re back in the valleyOh we’re back in the valleyand it all comes round againThat coal dust clings to me wherever I make my wayand like...Read Full Lyrics

I heard his whistling fading away like sleep into dreamsinstead of ‘I Love You’ he’d say ‘You know what I mean’I’d watch the sun he’d rarely see put red on the cheeks...Read Full Lyrics

I slave all day in the dusty darkfor my living I risk my neckand at the end of the month all you got for meis a god damn bob tailed checkI mined 49 tons at 71 and a halffor 35 doll...Read Full Lyrics

I curse the day my husband carried him away since then the sun don’t shineand I pray that the Lord never turns His backon my little boy in the minesThe bread no longer cuts four ...Read Full Lyrics

My beer pail is filled up to the brim to cool off a miners thirstand that dusty road that leads down down downwelcomes a coal man firstDaylight hours don’t hold much for mewas ra...Read Full Lyrics

Laying there...playing deadwhole lotta nothing....running through my headleft home with all these hopes and dreamsnow there's only whimpering and screamsin Blacksburgin Blacksburgt...Read Full Lyrics

I'm gonna convert you or kill yathe choice is up to youJesus ain't got time to wasteand I'm a busy person tooso get in line to save your soulyou know it's for the bestwhen we're do...Read Full Lyrics

Back in 1913 I was just 22and I done what them boss men told me to dohad my nose in the air and a fine suit of clotheswarm in the winter when that great lake wind blowscopper was g...Read Full Lyrics

Lord let me be good enoughto save others...hear my pleaif you've got room for one more soulyou might as well save meyou might as well save meI'm a jumper with the 508thjust a kid i...Read Full Lyrics

If you can do the dirty work...so can Idown in the ground instead of up in the skysome birds chirp and some birds singI guess I got what it takes for this sort of thingI'm a canary...Read Full Lyrics