The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118794   Message #2571309
Posted By: sharyn
19-Feb-09 - 06:59 PM
Thread Name: Coal Mine Songs
Subject: RE: Coal Mine Songs
Yep, just checked. The DT has this verse missing -- by the way, the real structure is double verses. The missing verse, then, is verse 4 and goes like this:

A miner will tell you it's hard to live here
All he's got are the mountains, the streams running clear,
But mountains are crumbling and streams turning black
And when you move a mountain you can't put it back
And it's raining, it's pouring, the mountain comes down
And forty-two miners are trapped underground.
The company man says they'll get them on time.
But he's on the T.V. and not in the mine.