We read in the paper and the radio talesUs to raise our children to be miners as wellTell them how safe the mines are todayAnd to be like Daddy, bring home a big payNow don't you believe them, my boy, that story's a lieRemember the disaster at the Mannington mineWhere 78 miners were burned aliveBecause of unsafe conditions your daddy diedThey lure you with money, it sure is a sightWhen you may never live to see daylightWith your name among the big headlinesLike that awful disaster at the Mannington mineSo don't you believe them, my boy, that story's a lieRemember the disaster at the Mannington mineWhere 78 good men so uselessly diedOh, don't follow your daddy to the Mannington mineThere's a man in a big house way up on the hillFar, far from the shack where the poor miners liveHe's got plenty of money, Lord, everything's fineAnd he has forgotten the Mannington mineForgotten, forgotten the Mannington mineThere is a grave way down in the Mannington mineThere is a grave way down in the Mannington mineOh, what were their last thoughts, what were their criesAs the flames overtook them in the Mannington mineSo don't you believe them, my boy, that story's a lieRemember the disaster at the Mannington mineWhere 78 miners were burned aliveBecause of unsafe conditions your daddy diedHow can God forgive you, you do know what you've doneYou've killed my husband, now you want my son