And become a coal-miner and a prince among men.
My goal as a young lad from a bright early age
Was to follow my hero down in that cage
Fairy lights »
Prince Among Men (Only a Miner)
All In Good Time
by Patrick Street
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the pace
Oh mother of a miner's child
Was away the coal dust from my face
When the night shift's done
She'll be waiting by the table when I come
Searchin' »
Mother of a Miner's Child
Old Dan's Records
by Gordon Lightfoot
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In the town of spring hill, Nova Scotia,
Down in the heart of the Cumberland mine,
There's blood on the coal and miners lie
In the roads that »
Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster)
A Song Will Rise
by Peter, Paul and Mary
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And how her beauty ran down to her soul
She'd walk across the coal miner's yard
Them miner's would yell loud and hard
And they'd dream of who would »
Van Lear Rose
Van Lear Rose
by Loretta Lynn
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In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia
Down in the heart of the Cumberland Mine
There's blood on the coal and miners lie
In the roads that never saw »
Springhill Mining Disaster
The Late Late Show Tribute to the Dubliners
by U2
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Well I was born in old Kentucky
In them hills where folks are lucky
From a coal miner's daughter right to a coal miner's wife
Well the mountain »
God's Country
Still Country
by Loretta Lynn
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Well I was born a coal miner's daughter in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler
We were poor but we had love that's the one thing that daddy made sure »
Coal Miner's Daughter
Norma Jean
by Norma Jean
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in your lungs,
It will cut down a miner when he is still young,
Two years and the silicosis takes hold,
And I feel like I'm dying,
From mining »
Mining for Gold
The Trinity Session
by Cowboy Junkies
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Well, I was borned a coal miner's daughter,
In a cabin, on a hill in butcher holler.
We were poor but we had love,
That's the one thing that »
Coal Miner's Daughter
Legends of Country: Classic Hits from the '50s, '60s & '70s
by Loretta Lynn
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down form the coal mine, dead
Oh fly away you red winged bird
Leave behind the miner's wife
She'll dream about you when you're gone
She'll dream »
Red-Winged Blackbird
Coal
by Kathy Mattea
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In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia,
Down in the heart of the Cumberland Mine,
There's blood on the coal and miners lie
In the roads that »
Ballad of Springhill
Songs From the Film Out of Darkness (The Mine Workers' Story)
by Tom Juravich
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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine
There's blood on the coal and the miners lie
In the roads that »
Springhill Mining Disaster
Rock's Hottest Ticket [Disc 1+2]
by U2
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coal miners, old and young, dirty and dusty coveralls
Silver lunch can in hand
Going down the rake, father and son
Carrying on that age old »
Working Man
The Promise
by Matt Minglewood
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and the vaults are stuffed with silver
that the farmer sweated for
I've seen the weary miner
scrubbing coal dust from his back
I heard his children »
The Banks of Marble
Try and Stop Me
by Los Lobos
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he grabs his duds and down he goes,
To hew the coal that lies below,
There's not a woman in this town row
Will look at the blackleg miner.
Oh, Delaval »
The Blackleg Miner
Fairport Convention Companion
by Steeleye Span
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this is about
I'll wear my crown
Stand on my ground
Don't make a sound
Someone might hear you
I'm freezing in a coal miner's dream
All my love »
Coal Miner
Untold
by Pete Francis
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underground
He makes a good wage for a coal miner's son
And she's a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one
Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight »
Sweet Guinevere
Endless Wire
by Gordon Lightfoot
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my day"
The miners they went home, they worked hard and well
Their lungs filled with coal dust in the bosom of hell
The out-put rose by fifteen, »
The Pound a Week Rise
Old Ground
by Seven Nations
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coal miner all of my life. Layin' down track in the hole.
Gotta back like an ironwood, bit by the wind. Blood veins blue as the coal. Blood veins blue »
Coal Tattoo
Time to Think
by The Kingston Trio
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you're mining for coal
I was a miner
And you were a rock in the dust
But you became flawless
When you were you polished by love
And when I found »
Mining for Coal
No Holdin' Back
by Randy Travis
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Your thoughts are as loud as gunfire
Your face as hard as coal
Bitterness, like buckshot explodes inside your mind
And there's one man dead
On that »
Lawrence Jones
Coal
by Kathy Mattea
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and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger »
Dark As the Dungeon
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
by Johnny Cash
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and my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my »
Dark as a Dungeon
Folk Songs of the Hills (Back Home/Songs of the Coal Miners)
by Merle Travis
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soul,
'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.
[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double »
Dark as a Dungeon
Big Bluegrass Special
by The Green River Boys
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and my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner digging my bones »
Dark as a Dungeon
In Prague 1964
by Pete Seeger
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