HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A COAL MINER'S LOAD?

AH, IT'S A LONG LONELY ROAD.

FILLED WITH DARKNESS AND FEARS UNTOLD.

I GOT MY FIRST LOOK AT THE AGE OF EIGHT

BUT BY THEN IT WAS ALREADY TO LATE

MOMMA WORRIED, BUT DADDY WOULD ONLY SCOLD

HE LOST HIS LIFE WHILE DIGGING BLACK GOLD

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A COAL MINER'S LOAD?

AH, IT'S A LONG LONELY ROAD

FILLED WITH DARKNESS AND FEARS UNTOLD

MY YOUNG HEAD WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION

NO ONE TOLD ME THERE COULD BE A MINE EXPLOSION

I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING FOR MY DADDY'S LUNCH BUCKET

BUT FOR ME THERE WOULD BE NO CANDY OR TOY SURPRISE

NO MORE DADDY'S LAUGHING EYES

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A COAL MINER'S LOAD?

AH, IT'S A LONG LONELY ROAD

FILLED WITH DARKNESS AND FEARS UNTOLD

SOMETIMES I THINK THESE MOUNTAINS

HAVE GIVEN UP THEIR YIELD

BUT I'M STILL HERE DADDY

IN THIS COAL FIELD

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A COAL MINER'S LOAD?

AH, IT'S A LONG LONELY ROAD

FILLED WITH DARKNESS AND FEARS UNTOLD

SOME PEOPLE THINK WE'RE CRAZY TO FIGHT

FOR THE COAL MINER'S RIGHT

I'VE HAD MY SAY,

LET'S JOIN HANDS TODAY

AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT LOAD
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WRITTEN BY: BARBARA(DEEL)BAUGUS

IN MEMORY OF:
WILLIAM FRENCHMAN DEEL(HER FATHER)

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