Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Down In The Mine, artist - Dierks Bentley.
Date of issue: 31.12.2009
Song language: English
Down In The Mine |
Here in Harlan County, the choices are few |
To keep food on the table and the babies in shoes |
You can grow marijuana way back in the pines |
Or work for the man down in the mine |
You never forget your first day in the hole |
There’s a pit in your stomach and your mouth’s full of coal |
There’s no turning back once you make up your mind |
As the cart rattles on down in the mine |
Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud |
And you can’t catch your breath for the dust in your lungs |
Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines |
Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave |
Way down in the mine |
Well the old timers talk but you just don’t believe |
It can all go to hell at two thousand feet |
Life sways in the balance of nature and time |
And fate has no mercy down in the mine |
The news spreads like fire and burned through those hills |
Hopes were held high but five men got killed |
On the wings of canaries, your soul surely flies |
While your bones spend eternity down in the mine |
Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud |
And you can’t catch your breath for the dust in your lungs |
Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines |
Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave |
Way down in the mine |
So take a flask from your crib can can and a pull of moonshine |
And say a prayer for them boys down in the mine |