Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold lyrics

rate me

We are miners, hard rock miners

To the shaft house we must go

oil bottles on our shoulders

We are marching to the stope

On the line boys, on the line boys

Drill your holes and stand in line

'til the shift boss comes to tell you

You must drill her out on time

Can't you feel the rock dust in your lungs?

It'll cut down a miner when he is still young

Two years and the silicosis takes hold

and I feel like I'm dying from mining for gold

Yes, I feel like I'm dying from mining for gold

Thanks to Ed Meyer for correcting these lyrics