Come All Ye Coal Miners

Come all you coal miners wherever you may be

And listen to a story that I'll relate to thee

My name is nothing extra, but the truth to you I'll tell

I'm a coal miner's son. I'm sure I wish you well

I was born in old Kentucky, in a coal camp born and bred

I know all about the pinto beans, bulldog gravy and corn bread

And I know how the coal miners slave and work in the coal mines every day

For a dollar in the company store, for that is all they pay

Coal mining is the most dangerous work in our land today

With plenty of dirty, slaving work and very little pay

Coal miner, won't you wake up and open your eyes and see

What the dirty capitalist system is doing to you and me

They take your very life's blood, they take our children's lives

They take fathers away from children, and husbands away from wives

Oh miner, won't you organize wherever you may be

And make this land of freedom for workers like you and me

Dear miner, they will slave you till you can't work no more

And what'll you get for your living but a dollar in the company store?

A rundown shack to live in, snow and rain pours in the top

You have to pay the company rent, your payin' never stops

I am a coal miner's son. I'm sure I wish you well

Let's sink this capitalist system in the darkest pits of hell