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Thread #168096 Message #4060119
Posted By: cnd
19-Jun-20 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Miner's Lady
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Miner's Lady
Transcribed by ear from here. If you still have trouble with the lyrics, the original, by Ivan Lee Meece (click) is much easier to understand, but more of a country song rather than bluegrass.
She welcomes him with open arms to a valley lush and wild Her cabin is her castle, and Southern is her style She's hell on wheels a-booming across the mountainside A barefoot country woman, a snow-white Persian bride
CHORUS: She's tall like a pine, pretty like a flower Gentle woman, country cooking folks are fine Dancing woman, banjo ringing through the pines Lonely woman, til the miner's lantern softly shines
She rocks her baby tenderly in the midnight of a storm When all she ever longs for is a man to keep her warm But fire burns in her body from the mines down below Down where her love is digging in the jet-black diamond coal
This is a transcription of the J. D. Crowe version. The original version by Meece does not have the line "She's hell on wheels a-booming..." instead singing "She's a miner's rock of ages upon the mountainside"