《Blind Fiddler》歌词

[00:00:00] I lost my eyes in the Harlan pits in the year of '56

[00:00:08] While pulling a faulty drill chain that was out of fix

[00:00:15] It bounded from the wheel and there concealed my doom

[00:00:24] I am a blind fiddler far from my home

[00:01:04] I went up into Louisville to visit Dr Laine

[00:01:10] He operated on one of my eyes still it is the same

[00:01:17] The Blue Ridge can't support me it just ain't got the room

[00:01:23] Would a wealthy colliery owner like to hear a fiddler's tune

[00:01:34] With politics and threatening tones the owners can control

[00:01:40] And the unions have all left us a long long time ago

[00:01:47] Machinery lying scattered no drill sounds in the mine

[00:01:53] For all the good a collier is he might as well be blind

[00:02:07] Was a time I worked a long fourteen for a short eight bucks a day

[00:02:13] You're lucky if you're mining that's what the owners say

[00:02:19] And if you've got complaining you'd better aim to keep it low

[00:02:25] How come they took my food stamps does anybody know

[00:02:36] My father was a miner's son a miner still is he

[00:02:43] But his eyes have took a fever and there's a shaking in his knee

[00:02:49] The holes are closing rapidly he cannot understand

[00:02:54] A machine has got a bigger arm than him or any other man

[00:03:34] Plastic for the windows cardboard for the door

[00:03:40] The baby's mouth is twisting it'll twist a little more

[00:03:46] They need welders in Chicago falls hollow to the floor

[00:03:52] How many miners made that trip a thousand times or more

[00:04:03] The lights are burning bright there's laughter in the town

[00:04:09] But the streets are dark and empty there ain't a miner to be found

[00:04:14] They're in some lonesome hollow where the sun refuse to shine

[00:04:20] And the baby's screams are muffled in the sweetness of the wine

[00:04:29] With a wife and four young children depending now on me

[00:04:36] Whatever can I serve them with My God I cannot see

[00:04:41] Through the Blue Ridge Mountains I am content to roam

[00:04:47] I am a blind fiddler far from my home

[00:04:54] Yes I am a blind fiddler far from my home