Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Blind Fiddler, artist - Eric Andersen.
Date of issue: 31.12.2011
Song language: English
Blind Fiddler |
I lost my eyes in the Harlan pits in the year of '56 |
While pulling a faulty drill chain that was out of fix |
It bounded from the wheel and there concealed my doom |
I am a blind fiddler far from my home |
I went up into Louisville to visit Dr. Laine |
He operated on one of my eyes still it is the same |
The Blue Ridge can’t support me, it just ain’t got the room |
Would a wealthy colliery owner like to hear a fiddler’s tune? |
With politics and threatening tones the owners can control |
And the unions have all left us a long, long time ago |
Machinery lying scattered, no drill sounds in the mine |
For all the good a collier is, he might as well be blind |
Was a time I worked a long fourteen for a short eight bucks a day |
You’re lucky if you’re mining, that’s what the owners say |
And if you’ve got complaining, you’d better aim to keep it low |
How come they took my food stamps, does anybody know? |
My father was a miner’s son, a miner still is he |
But his eyes have took a fever, and there’s a shaking in his knee |
The holes are closing rapidly, he cannot understand |
A machine’s got a bigger arm than him or any other man |
Plastic for the windows, cardboard for the door |
Baby’s mouth is twisting, it’ll twist a little more |
«They need welders in Chicago» falls hollow to the floor |
How many miners made that trip a thousand times or more? |
The lights are burning bright, there’s laughter in the town |
But the streets are dark and empty, there ain’t a miner to be found |
They’re in some lonesome hollow where the sun refuse to shine |
And the baby’s screams are muffled in the sweetness of the wine |
With a wife and four young children depending now on me |
Whatever can I serve them with? |
My God, I cannot see |
Through the Blue Ridge Mountains I am content to roam |
Yes, I am a blind fiddler, far from my home |
Yes, I am a blind fiddler, far from my home |