Blue Diamond Mines-Jean Ritchie

[ti:Blue Diamond Mines (Remastered Album Version)] [ar:Jean Ritchie] [al:Mountain Hearth & Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.19]Blue Diamond Mines (Remastered Album Version) - Jean Ritchie [00:01.13]Written by：Dick Weissman [00:01.97] [00:08.30]I remember the ways in the bygone days [00:15.56]When we was all in our prime [00:19.70] [00:21.18]How us and Johnny [00:24.22] [00:25.20]We gave the old man hell [00:28.07]Down in the blue diamond mines [00:32.42] [00:33.60]When the whistle would blow 'fore the rooster crowed [00:40.06] [00:40.62]Full two hours before daylight [00:45.16] [00:46.08]When a man done his best [00:49.50] [00:50.03]And he earned his good rest [00:52.26] [00:52.80]And had seventeen dollars at night [00:57.68] [00:58.73]In the mines in the mines in the blue diamond mines [01:05.35]I have worked my life away [01:10.82] [01:11.42]In the mines in the mines in the blue diamond mines [01:18.31]Oh fall on your knees and pray [01:23.48] [01:27.06]You old black gold you've taken my soul [01:33.91]Your dust has darkened my home [01:38.56] [01:39.35]And now I'm old [01:42.79] [01:43.34]And you turn your back [01:46.46]Where else can an old miner go [01:51.10] [01:54.84]Well it's big leatherwood [01:58.04] [01:59.27]Are gone in black [02:01.76]Now it's old blue diamond too [02:06.85]Well the pits [02:07.98] [02:08.79]They are closed get another job [02:13.78] [02:14.51]What work [02:15.78]Can an old miner do [02:19.32] [02:20.08]In the mines in the mines [02:23.03]In the blue diamond mines [02:26.39] [02:26.91]I have worked my life away [02:31.91] [02:32.87]In the mines in the mines [02:35.63]In the blue diamond mines [02:39.19] [02:39.84]Oh fall on your knees and pray [02:44.76] [02:48.35]Johnny had a dream [02:52.43]But it's broken it seems [02:54.68] [02:55.23]Now our union is letting us down [02:59.81] [03:00.94]Last week they took away my hospital card [03:07.13] [03:07.82]Said why don't you leave this old town [03:12.43] [03:13.38]Oh let's go downtown boys and hang around [03:20.31]Well maybe it ain't so bad [03:24.84] [03:25.82]Go on back home and they meet you at the door [03:32.31] [03:33.05]And it's what did you bring me dad [03:37.07] [03:38.40]In the mines in the mines [03:41.20]In the blue diamond mines [03:44.95]I have worked my life away [03:50.52] [03:51.06]In the mines in the mines [03:53.83]In the blue diamond mines [03:57.11] [03:58.09]Oh fall on your knees and pray