In the black dust towns of east Tennessee All the work's about the same And you may not go to the job in the ground But you learn the miner's refrain
I want you choosing me, I feel a common breeze A street's a miracle, I want a miracle I want you choosing me, I feel a common free Oooh oooh oooh oooh
Coalminer's Doughter Well I was born a coalminer's daughter in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler we were poor but we had love that's the one thing that
One hundred million times I said it to you There's nothing else I will do for you How many times do you have to hear from me There's nothing you can do
Down in the mine it's dark and it's damp Your legs will be bent and your buttocks will cramp Dust will get into your eyes and your pants And make your
This train it goes this way, tonight we can't go back It's all that I can wait for While I was standing here you took your high heels off And let the
I know you think you're taking mind expanders The price you pay is that it don't cost nothing You get the truth You get an advertisement You get the truth
When the whistle blows each morning And I walk down in that cold, dark mine I say a prayer to my dear Savior Please let me see the sunshine one more time
She is my flower And she blooms for the one who loves her best The miners stop to watch as she walks They know her love is not for sale She will never
I found your house and I saw your car But I've no idea where you are From the dial-a-view Tire scraps on a federal road Look like crash landed crows
Kids are spittin' on the Town Hall steps and frightenin' old ladies I dreamt that I was livin' back in the mid 1980s People marchin', people shoutin',
THE BLACKLEG MINERS Oh, early in the evenin', just after dark, The blackleg miners creep te wark, Wi' their moleskin trousers an' dorty short, There go
Well, it's harvest time out on this Amarillo highway Daydreamin' the South of France I could whistle you out waltzin' there Would you still say you can
This is dangerous. open up your head feel the shell-shock. This is dangerous. I walk the mindfields so watch your head rock. ... I walk through mindfields
I was nineteen, you were twenty-one The year we got engaged Everyone said we were much too young But we did it anyway We bought our rings for forty each
[bonus track] Nuclear tests that heep up wealth for the rich They're selling their souls like a rotten sleazy bitch Contaminated children are born to
Nuclear tests that reap up wealth for the rich They're selling their souls like a rotten sleazy bitch Contaminated children are born to live in pain No
He's in a very bad way Someone will tell his wife They'll run and fetch the doctor To try and save his life. He was the underground man A slave to rock