Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter, artist - Pete Seeger. Album song Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 02.05.2019
Record label: Smithsonian Folkways
Song language: English
Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter |
Dear Mister Editor, if you choose |
Please send me a copy of the labor news; |
I’ve got a son in the infantry |
And he’d be mighty glad to see |
That someone, somewhere, now and then |
Thinks about the lives of the mining men |
In Perry County |
In Perry County and thereabout |
We miners simply had to go out |
It was long hours, substandard pay |
Then they took our contract away |
Fourteen months is a mighty long time |
To face the goons on the picket line |
In Perry County |
I’m twenty-six years a miner’s wife |
There’s nothing harder than a miner’s life |
But there’s no better man than a mining man |
Couldn’t find better in all this land |
The deal they get is a rotten deal |
Mountain greens and gravy meal |
In Perry County |
We live in barns that the rain comes in |
While operators live high as sin |
Ride Cadillac cars and drink like a fool |
While our kids lack clothes to go to school |
Sheriff Combs he has it fine |
He runs the law and owns a mine |
In Perry County |
What operator would go dig coal |
For even fifty a day on the mine pay-roll! |
Why, after work my man comes in |
With his wet clothes frozen to his skin |
Been digging coal so the world can run |
And operators can have their fun |
In Perry County |
When folks sent money to the Hazard Press |
To help the strikers in distress |
They gave that money, yours and mine |
To the scabs who crossed the picket line |
And the state militia and F.B.I |
Just look on while miners die |
In Perry County |
I believe the truth will out some day |
That we’re fighting for jobs at decent pay |
We’re just tired of doing without |
And that’s what the strike is all about |
And it helps to know that folks like you |
Are telling the story straight and true |
About Perry County |