Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea - West Virginia Mine Disaster lyrics
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Oh say, did you see him? It was early this morning He passed all your houses on his way to the call He was tall, he was slender and his dark eyes so tender His occupation was mining, West Virginia his home It was early this morning, I was feeding the children Ben Mosly came running to bring us the news Number 8 is all flooded, many men are in danger We don't know their number, but we fear they're all doomed So I picked up the baby and I left all the others To comfort each other and to pray for their own There's Timmy, 14, and there's John, not much younger Their own time soon will be coming to go down the black hole If I had the money to do more than just feed them I'd give them good learning, the best could be found So when they growned up they'd be checkers and weighers And not spend their life digging in the dark underground Now what can I say to his poor little children? And what can I tell his dear mother at home? And what will I say to my heart that's clear broken? Broken in two, yeah, now my baby is gone Oh say, did you see him going? It was early this morning He passed all your houses on his way to the call He was tall, he was slender and his dark eyes so tender His occupation was mining, West Virginia his home