'Loading Coal' Johnny Cash

'Dark as a Dungeon' Merle Travis

'Big John' Jimmy Dean

'I'm Just an old Chunk of Coal' John Anderson

"It's a Working Man I am" Rita MacNeil

Kathy Mattea's last CD is called 'Coal', stark...

and there's gotta be a lot of Welsh mining songs

thanks for posting the Darrell Scott song... and hipping me to it... it's beautiful... a diamond...