Come all you coal miners
Forever you may be and listen to a story
That I'll relate to thee
My name is nothing next tree
But the truth to you I'll tell
I'm a coal miners wife. I'm sure I wish you well
coal
Mining is the most dangerous work in our land today
With plenty of dirty slaving work and very little pay
Coal miner won't you wake up?
And open your eyes and see what the dirty capitalist system is doing to you and me
They take your very life blood. They take our children's lives
Take fathers away from children and
Husbands away from my house. Oh miner won't you organize?
wherever you may be and
Make this a land of freedom for workers like you and me
Dear miner, they will slave you tell you can't work no more
And what do you get for your living?
but a dollar in a company store a
tumble-down shack to live in
Snowing rain pours in the top. You have to pay the company rent. You're paying never stop. I
Am a coal miners wife. I'm sure I wish you well
Let's thank this capitalist system in the darkest pits of hell