Waiting at the Gate-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Waiting at the Gate] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.45]Waiting at the Gate - Woody Guthrie [00:01.74]Written by：Woody Guthrie [00:02.62] [00:05.50]Tell the miners' kids and wives [00:07.64]There's a blast in the number five [00:09.56] [00:10.07]And the families I see standing at the gate [00:12.73] [00:13.95]The inspector years ago said number five's a deadly hole [00:18.44]And the men most likely won't come out alive [00:21.41] [00:23.13]Waiting at the gate we are waiting at the gate [00:29.55] [00:30.42]Smoke and fire just boil and roll from that dark and deadly hole [00:34.98]While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate [00:38.56] [00:39.64]The inspector told the boss it was more than a year ago [00:43.36] [00:43.88]You're risking these men's lives in number five [00:46.76] [00:47.44]That hole's full of fumes and dust full of high explosive gas [00:51.39]But the boss said we'll just have to take the chance [00:54.47] [00:55.87]Waiting at the gate we are waiting at the gate [01:01.91] [01:02.93]Smoke and fire just boil and roll from that dark and deadly hole [01:07.87]While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate [01:10.73] [01:11.78]Well the men in the number five kissed their wives and kids goodbye [01:15.53]Then they walk with their lunch kits up the hill [01:18.27] [01:19.24]Everybody told the owner that this deadly day would come [01:23.00]But he said we had to work to pay our bills [01:26.12] [01:27.46]Waiting at the gate we are waiting at the gate [01:33.29] [01:34.33]Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole [01:38.67]While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate [01:41.33] [01:43.24]Well I tried to get a look of the face I often know [01:47.04]As the men are carried out wrapped up in sheets [01:49.90] [01:50.61]I can hear the church bells ringing for the one hundred eleven dead [01:54.35]I can hear the families weeping in the streets [01:57.36] [01:58.83]Waiting at the gate we are waiting at the gate [02:04.69] [02:05.72]Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole [02:10.44]While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate [02:13.61] [02:15.62]This explosion struck on Wednesday [02:17.33]And I stood by the gate till Saturday [02:19.48]Till they laid my daddy out with the other men [02:21.95] [02:23.02]In the pocket of his shirt I found a little note he wrote [02:26.90] [02:27.58]Never go down in a dangerous mine again [02:30.26] [02:31.84]Waiting at the gate we are waiting at the gate [02:37.64] [02:38.56]Smoke and fire just roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole [02:43.24]While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate