《Blue Diamond Mines》歌词

[00:00:00] Blue Diamond Mines - Kathy Mattea

[00:00:13] I remember the ways

[00:00:18] In the bygone days

[00:00:21] When we were in our prime

[00:00:27] How us and John L

[00:00:30] Give the old man hell

[00:00:33] Down in the blue diamond mine

[00:00:39] Well the whistle blowed

[00:00:42] And the rooster crowed

[00:00:45] Two hours before daylight

[00:00:51] When a man done his best

[00:00:54] And he earned his good rest

[00:00:57] Had seventeen dollars at night

[00:01:03] In the mines in the mines

[00:01:05] In the blue diamond mines

[00:01:09] I worked my life away

[00:01:15] In the mines in the mines

[00:01:17] In the blue diamond mines

[00:01:21] Oh fall on your knees and pray

[00:01:39] You old black gold

[00:01:44] You've taken my lungs

[00:01:47] And your dust

[00:01:48] Has darkened my home

[00:01:52] And now that we're old

[00:01:56] You're turning your back

[00:01:59] Where else

[00:02:00] Can an old miner go

[00:02:04] Well it's algomer block

[00:02:08] And it's big leather woods

[00:02:11] And now it's blue diamond too

[00:02:17] Well the pits are all closed

[00:02:21] And it's get another job

[00:02:23] What else

[00:02:25] Can an old miner do

[00:02:29] In the mines in the mines

[00:02:31] In the blue diamond mines

[00:02:36] I worked my life away

[00:02:41] In the mines in the mines

[00:02:43] In the blue diamond mines

[00:02:48] Oh fall on your knees and pray

[00:03:05] John L had a dream

[00:03:11] But it's broken it seems

[00:03:14] Mining has had it's day

[00:03:19] But they're stripping off

[00:03:23] My mountain top

[00:03:26] And they pay me eight dollars a day

[00:03:31] And I get a little poke

[00:03:35] Of welfare meal

[00:03:38] A little poke of welfare flour

[00:03:43] But I tell ya right now

[00:03:47] You won't qualify

[00:03:50] 'Til you work

[00:03:51] For a quarter an hour

[00:03:55] In the mines in the mines

[00:03:58] In the blue diamond mines

[00:04:02] I worked my life away

[00:04:07] In the mines in the mines

[00:04:10] In the blue diamond mines

[00:04:14] Oh fall on your knees and pray