Kathy Mattea - Blue Diamond Mines lyrics

rate me

I remember the ways in the bygone days

When we was all in our prime

When us and John L. we give the old man hell

Down in the Blue Diamond Mine

Well the whistle would blow 'for the rooster crow

Full two hours before daylight

When a man done his best and earned his good rest

At seven dollars a night

In the mines in the mines

In the Blue Diamond Mines

I worked my life away

In the mines in the mines

In the Blue Diamond Mines

I fall on my knees and pray.

You old black gold you've taken my lung

Your dust has darkened my home

And now I am old and you've turned your back

Where else can an old miner go

Well it's Algomer Block and Big Leather Woods

Now its Blue Diamond too

The bits are all closed get another job

What else can an old miner do?

Now the union is dead and they shake their heads

Well mining has had it's day

But they're stripping off my mountain top

And they pay me eight dollars a day