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Thread #30585   Message #399718
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
16-Feb-01 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: coal mining songs
Subject: RE: coal mining songs
Since it's West Virginia you're working on, there's one of my songs no one has mentioned. It's a quiet one, usually sung unaccompanied (by me anyway)entitled just, "West Virginia Mine Disaster," as I couldnt think of a better name for it. It was inspired by the flooding of the mine at Hominey Falls, but I used made-up names not wishing to embarrass real people. It speaks mainly for women, whose lot in those days was to stay at home and worry.

You've a good tough project in hand; work hard and don't let it get you down. All the best, Jean