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40 Hour Week by Alabama
America's Mine Rescue Team by Mel Shaw
Angry American by Toby Keith
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean
Cajun Queen by Jimmy Dean
Centralia by Ken Batista
Coal Miner's Daughter by Lorretta Lynn
Coal Miner's Hands by Blackwater Outlaw
Coal Miner Visual Song by Shelley Lynch
Crandall Canyon Mine by Mark R. Cronin
Dark As A Dungeon by Johnny Cash
Down in the Mine by Dierks Bentley
Emphysema Blues by Pete Zaharoff
Hard Rock Miner by Robert Gibney
Henry Russell's Last Words by Diana Jones
I Am a Miner by Holy Water and Whiskey
Knox Mine Disaster by Tom Flannery
Miracle at Quecreek Mine by Mountain John
Miner's Prayer by Dwight Yokum
Nothing in Centralia by Raven Hill
Paradise by John Prine
Quecreek Nine by David Morgan
Quecreek Nine by Marcia McKenzie
See You on the Other Side by Les Freres
Shamrock City Preview by Solas
Sheppton Mine Rescue by Ronnie Sando
Song of the Quecreek Miners by Jene' Lind
The Ballad of Springhill by Peggy Seeger
Timothy by Rupert Holmes
Tragedy at the Sunshine Mine by Frank Starr
Upper Big Branch by Holy Water and Whiskey
West Virginia Underground by Taylor Made
Working Man by Rita McNeil
The Miracle at Quecreek Mine
by Mountain John
The clouds cover up the clear blue sky,
It's black as coal, down in the mine,
Life goes on, day by day,
It's hard to feed a family on a miner's pay.
Another day, with no daylight,
That's the way for a miners life,
Nobody knew as they left home.
Nine would stay, and nine would go.
Coal dust flying, dirty and black,
Out of nowhere, you hear, "Get Back",
A wall of water, 4 feet high,
They all thought they would drown and die.
Nine men scrambled from a coal black grave,
Nine more below were left to save,
Nose deep in water, the Boss threw a rope,
Nowhere to go, and not much hope.
They finally stumbled to a shaft up high,
They all crawled in and prepared to die,
Cold and wet, scared to death,
They huddled for warmth and prayed for breath.
They spoke of Home, Heaven, and Hell,
And many things, they'd never tell,
They heard the machines from way up high,
Prayed for forgiveness, and tried not to cry.
Families gathered, in the old Fire Hall,
Prayer Groups formed, to save them all,
Drilling crews came from far away,
They worked like dogs day after day.
Nine knocks came on a ventilation pipe,
12 hours gone, and they were alright,
A Hope, A Prayer, A Thread of Light,
They worked for three days, and four long nights.
The town folks came, with hot warm food,
Will they make it or not, no one knew,
The Governor cried, the families prayed,
The drills kept drilling, there were men to save.
70 some hours, and the drills broke through,
to a would be grave, and a Mining Crew,
Nine were alive, wet and cold,
A Miracle for all, 250 feet below.
The Quecreek mine, a Pennsylvania town,
Brought together by prayer, Lost faith was found,
The clouds blew away and left a clear blue sky.
Nine Lucky Miners are still alive.
