[lbo-talk] West Virginia Miners

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jan 6 17:26:35 PST 2006


Thomas Seay wrote:
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> I find this absence rather peculiar. Guess most US
> leftists have disdain for the hicketeriat.

Isn't it rather cheesy to use the deaths of the miners as an occasion for a cheap sneer?

Carrol

DISASTER AT THE MANNINGTON MINE (HAZEL DICKENS) (1970s)

We read in the paper and the radio tells

Us to to raise our children to be miners as well.

Oh tell them how safe the mines are today

And to be like your daddy, bring home a big pay.

Now don't you believe them, my boy,

That story's a lie.

Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine

Where seventy-eight miners were buried alive,

Because of unsafe conditions your daddy died.

They lure us with money, it sure is a sight.

When you may never live to see the daylight

With your name among the big headlines

Like that awful disaster at the Mannington mine.

So don't you believe them, my boy,

That story's a lie.

Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine

Where seventy-eight miners were buried alive,

Because of unsafe conditions your daddy died.

There's a man in a big house way up on the hill

Far, far from the shacks where the poor miners live.

He's got plenty of money, Lord, everything's fine

And he has forgotten the Mannington mine.

Yes, he has forgotten the Mannington mine.

There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine

There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine.

Oh, what were their last thoughts, what were their cries

As the flames overtook them in the Mannington mine.

So don't you believe them, my boy,

That story's a lie.

Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine

Where seventy-eight good men so uselessly died

Oh, don't follow your daddy to the Mannington mine.

How can God forgive you, you do know what you've done.

You've killed my husband, now you want my son.



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