Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea - Blue Diamond Mines songtekst
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I remember the ways in the bygone days Ehen we were in our prime How us and John L. give the old man hell Down in the Blue Diamond Mine Well, the whistle blows and the rooster crows Two hours before daylight When a man's done his best and he earned his good rest At seventeen dollars a night In the mines, in the mines in the Blue Diamond Mines I worked my life away In the mines, in the mines In the Blue Diamond Mines Oh, fall on your knees and pray Old black gold, you've taken my lungs And your dust has darkened my home And now that we're old, you're turnin'g your back where else can an old miner go? Well, it's Algomer Block and it's Big Leather Woods Now its Blue Diamond too Well, the pits are all closed and it's,"get another job" What else can an old miner do? In the mines, in the mines in the Blue Diamond Mines I worked my life away In the mines, in the mines In the Blue Diamond Mines Oh, fall on your knees and pray John L. had a dream But it's broken, it seems Mining has had its day But they're stripping off my mountain top And they pay me eight dollars a day I get a little poke of welfare meal A little poke of welfare flour But I tell you right now you won't qualify 'Tll you work for a quarter an hour In the mines, in the mines in the Blue Diamond Mines I worked my life away In the mines, in the mines In the Blue Diamond Mines Oh, fall on your knees and pray