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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
Upper Big Branch
By Holy Water and Whiskey
From their CD titled
Miners, Outlaws and Other Relatives
Web site:
www.holywaterandwhiskey.com
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Video performance
by Holy Water and Whiskey
Oh the roads in West Virginia wind and twist to the mines,
But the entries underground run in straight dark lines.
On an early April Monday, when the shift was in the mine,
An explosion shook the workings, the final count was twenty nine.
Chorus:
Miners in our country are a tough hard working breed,
But when the mine explodes even miners break and bleed.
Aint the first time this has happened though we'd hoped we'd seen the end.
Of the widows and the children singing “Amazing Grace” again.
Of the widows and the children singing “Amazing Grace” again.
Some of them had little children, some of them were almost free,
Digging coal is what they knew, and they prayed like you and me.
That they'd come home safe at night, hold their loved ones close to them,
As they'd gathered up their tools and headed down the slope again.
Chorus:
Miners in our country they're a tough hard working breed,
But when the mine explodes even miners break and bleed.
Aint the first time this has happened thought we'd hoped we'd seen the end.
Of the widows and the children singing “I'll Fly Away” again.
Of the widows and the children singing “I'll Fly Away” again.
Break.
When you turn on that light, or that fancy big TV,
Think about the miner with a cap lamp just to see.
How we love them when they're working, and we miss them when they're gone.
Hold the miners and their families in our hearts where they belong.
Chorus:
Miners in our country they're a tough hard working breed,
But when the mine explodes even miners break and bleed.
Aint the first time this has happened though we'd hoped we'd seen the end
Of all the families singing: “Will the circle be Unbroken” again.
“Will the circle be Unbroken” again.
Miners in our country they're a tough hard working breed,
But when the mine explodes even miners break and bleed.
Aint the first time this has happened though we'd hoped we'd seen the end
Of all the families singing: “Will the circle be Unbroken”,
By and by lord by and by.
Repeat chorus.
