Coal Mine

Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine I cry

I've seen the darkest days by the miners light

Say a prayer for me when I'm down in the seam

Down in a coal, coal mine

At west ray and hillcrest, I see the crosses stand

Each one to mark a grave there beneath the sand

The heartache and sorrow ain't no one can tell

For a sweetheart who's left there without a farewell

Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine I cry

I've seen the darkest days by the miners light

Say a prayer for me when I'm down in the seam

Down in a coal, coal mine

Shanty shacks in a shanty town all in a line

They boarded them up when they closed down the mine

They laid off the miners who laid their lives down

Left a scar on the land and a hole in the ground

Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine I cry

I've seen the darkest days by the miners light

Say a prayer for me when I'm down in the seam

Down in a coal, coal mine

Black damp and fire damp down in the coal

The danger that waits there every miner knows

A spark or a flame might come just as fast

As the last breath of death in the methane gas

Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine I cry

I've seen the darkest days by the miners light

Say a prayer for me when I'm down in the seam

Down in a coal, coal mine

There's a faded photograph still hanging on the wall

In a dark corridor down at the union hall

And the look in his eyes there is always the same

Fifty years a coal miner there by his name

Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine I cry

I've seen the darkest days by the miners light

Say a prayer for me when I'm down in the seam

Down in a coal, coal mine

Down in a coal mine