Give My Love To Marie

I'm a black lung miner from East Tennessee

Raised my family on cold dust and beans

That old black lung's got me no life left in me

Hang the lantern in the window, give my love to Marie

For twenty-five years I've worked in the mines

Where the earth is as black as a cold winter's night

There's a million in the ground, not a penny for me

Hang the lantern in the window, give my love to Marie

I've loved all my children, six sons of mine

I pray that they never must work in the mine

For the black lung will get them, they'll die just like me

Hang the lantern in the window, give my love to Marie

There's frost on the ground, ice in the trees

The air is so heavy I can't hardly breathe

For the old black lung's got me and soon I'll be free

Hang my lantern in the window, give my love to Marie

Hang my lantern in the window, give my love to Marie