Coal Minin' Man

Daylight or dark, in rain or shine

It don't much matter down in the mine

Where the tunnel's deep, Lord the air gets thin

That's the way of life for the minin' man.

His lungs are weak. his back is gone

His sixty years are plainly shown

Lived half his life down in the ground

A cold steel hammer rings a mournful sound.

Daylight or dark, in rain or shine

It don't much matter down in the mine

Where the tunnel's deep, Lord the air gets thin

That's the way of life for the minin' man.

I'll tell you, son he said to me

There's just two things I pray to see

That the day my Savior calls me home

And to see my son stop minin' coal.

Oh, daddy dear I'll tell you true

There's nothing elsr for me to do

But to make my livin' underneath this land

And live and die a coal minin' man.

Daylight or dark, in rain or shine

It don't much matter down in the mine

Where the tunnel's deep, Lord the air gets thin

That's the way of life for the minin' man.

I'll make my livin' underneath this land

And die like you a coal minin' man...