This song I composed, that cold black minor blues, an old guy, he was working in there
and he'd take the mantrip, cut it off, push it in his place and load it up in coal, and
you couldn't get him out at all, hardly.
Carol Dowden was breaking on a motor, Enos Markham, he was running the motor, and I composed
this song, and the party guy off in the temple trying to put a scab on it, trying to break
the union up, and I composed this song, and Enos and Carol, and Herb was the guy that
would load the coal.
I got the blues, got the blues Lord, Lord, cold black minor blues, went to my place and
I peeped in, flayed in the water up to my chimney, got the blues, got the blues, got
the blues Lord, Lord, cold black minor blues, I look at old Jim, Jim looks sad, the worst
darn place that I ever had, he got the blues, he got the blues, he got the blues Lord, Lord,
cold black minor blues, sent me to the office to look at the roll, children counted up nine
dollars in the hole, got the blues, he got the blues, he got the blues Lord, Lord, cold
black minor blues, tell him Enos on a pardon, half he pays for, Herb's in the head and then
he wants four more, got the blues, he got the blues, he got the blues Lord, Lord, cold
black minor blues, bass come out the bottom, a deep enough sound, long come short, he says
I got another man, he got the blues, he got the blues, he got the blues Lord, Lord, cold
black minor blues, Herb on the tipple, singin' a song, get gone Herbie, call the whips a-comin'
he got the blues, he got the blues, he got the blues Lord, Lord, cold black minor blues.