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Lyrics for West Virginia Mining Disaster by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | West Virginia Mining Disaster | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 167 | | | | Lyrics: | West Virginia Mining Disaster
(Jean Ritchie)
Say, did you see him walking? it was
early this morning
He passed by your house on his way to the coal
He was tall, he was
slender, and his blue eyes so tender
His occupation was miner, West Virginia his
home
It was just about noon, I was feeding the children
Ben Moseley come running for
to give us the news
Number eight is all flooded, many men are in danger
And 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
For to comfort each other and pray for our own
There's Timmy, fourteen, and there's
John not much younger
Soon their own time will be coming to go down the black
hole
Now if I had the money to do more than just feed them
I'd give them good
learning, the best could be found
And when they grew up they'd be checkers and
weighers
And not spend their life drilling in the dark underground
And it's what
will I tell to my three little children?
And what will I tell his dear mother at home?
And
it's what will I tell to my poor heart that's dying?
My heart that's surely dying since my
darling is gone
Say, did you see him walking? it was early this morning
He passed by
your house on his way to the coal
He was tall, he was slender, and his blue eyes so
tender
His occupation was miner, West Virginia his home
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Jean Ritchie
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