《West Virginia Mine Disaster》歌词

[00:00:00] Did you see him going it was early this morning

[00:00:06] He passed all your houses on his way to the coal

[00:00:12] He was tall he was slender and his dark eyes so tender

[00:00:19] His occupation was mining west virginia his home

[00:00:28] It was just before twelve i was feeding the children

[00:00:34] Ben moseley came running to bring us the news

[00:00:40] Number eight is all flooded many men are in danger

[00:00:47] And we don't know their number but we fear they're all doomed

[00:00:56] So i picked up the baby and i left all the others

[00:01:01] To comfort each other and to pray for their own

[00:01:07] There's tommy fourteen and there's john not much younger

[00:01:14] Their own time soon will be coming to go down the black hole

[00:01:21] Now if i had the money to do more than just feed them

[00:01:28] I'd give them good learning the best could be found

[00:01:34] So when they grew up they'd be checkers and weighers

[00:01:41] And not spend their life drilling in the dark underground

[00:01:49] Now what can i say to his poor little children

[00:01:55] And what can i tell his old mother at home

[00:02:01] And what can i say to my heart that's clear broken

[00:02:07] To my heart that's clear broken if my darling is gone

[00:02:16] Say did you see him going it was early this morning

[00:02:22] He passed all your houses on his way to the coal

[00:02:28] He was tall he was slender and his dark eyes so tender

[00:02:35] His occupation was mining west virginia his home

[00:02:43] West Virginia Mine Disaster - Jean Ritchie