Kathy Mattea - West Virginia Mine Disaster lyrics

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Oh say, did you see him walking? it was early this morning

He passed all your house on his way to the coal

He was tall, he was slender, and his dark eyes so tender

His occupation was miner, West Virginia his home

It was just about noon, I was feeding the children

Ben Moseley came running for to bring us the news

Number eight is all flooded, many men are in danger

And we don't know their number, but we fear they're all doomed

So I picked up the baby and I left all the others

For to comfort each other and to pray for their

There's Tomy, fourteen, and there's John not much younger

Soon their own time will be coming to go down the black hole

Now what will I say to his poor little children?

And what will I tell his dear mother at home?

And what will I say to my heart that’s clear broken

My heart that's clear broke if my baby is gone?

Now if I had the money to do more than just feed them

I'd give them good learning, the best could be found

And when they grew up they'd be checkers and waiters

And not spend their life diggingin the dark underground

Oh say, did you see him going? it was early this morning

He passed all your house on his way to the coal

He was tall, he was slender, and his dark eyes so tender

His occupation was miner, West Virginia his home.