Here's the words to the song I posted. Considering that I worked in the mines 3-1/2 years and my dad worked his whole life in the coal mines, it's a very pertinent song to me. Especially since we one time got notice that my dad had been killed in a "roof fall", and thank God he walked into the house later that day. He was almost crushed along with several other miners. They didn't find him until later that day because he was on the other side of the collapse.

Miner's Prayer

When the whistle blows each morning
And I walk down in that cold, dark mine
I say a prayer to my dear Savior
Please let me see the sunshine one more time

Chorus:
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground

I still grieve for my poor brother
And I still hear my dear old mother cry
When late that night they came and told her
He'd lost his life down in the Big Shoal Mine

Chorus:
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground

I have no shame, I feel no sorrow
If on this earth not much I own
I have the love of my sweet children
An old plow mule, a shovel and a hoe

Chorus:
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground

And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground

Last edited by bobcflatpicker; 11/15/09 04:07 PM.
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