West Virginia Mine Disaster-Jean Ritchie

[ti:West Virginia Mine Disaster] [ar:Jean Ritchie] [al:Clear Waters Remembered] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.91]Did you see him going it was early this morning [00:06.83]He passed all your houses on his way to the coal [00:12.31] [00:12.97]He was tall he was slender and his dark eyes so tender [00:19.89]His occupation was mining west virginia his home [00:27.30] [00:28.87]It was just before twelve i was feeding the children [00:34.76]Ben moseley came running to bring us the news [00:39.57] [00:40.16]Number eight is all flooded many men are in danger [00:47.35]And we don't know their number but we fear they're all doomed [00:54.44] [00:56.07]So i picked up the baby and i left all the others [01:01.46]To comfort each other and to pray for their own [01:06.89] [01:07.50]There's tommy fourteen and there's john not much younger [01:14.01]Their own time soon will be coming to go down the black hole [01:20.87] [01:21.48]Now if i had the money to do more than just feed them [01:27.75] [01:28.85]I'd give them good learning the best could be found [01:34.24] [01:34.80]So when they grew up they'd be checkers and weighers [01:41.06]And not spend their life drilling in the dark underground [01:48.23] [01:49.49]Now what can i say to his poor little children [01:54.88] [01:55.51]And what can i tell his old mother at home [02:00.40] [02:01.02]And what can i say to my heart that's clear broken [02:07.58]To my heart that's clear broken if my darling is gone [02:14.88] [02:16.84]Say did you see him going it was early this morning [02:22.19]He passed all your houses on his way to the coal [02:27.68] [02:28.65]He was tall he was slender and his dark eyes so tender [02:35.40]His occupation was mining west virginia his home [02:43.01]West Virginia Mine Disaster - Jean Ritchie [02:44.54]