Miner's Prayer Lyrics - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam & Ralph Stanley 

When the whistle blows each morning 

And I walk down in that cold, dark mine 

I say a prayer to my dear Saviour 

Please let me see the sunshine one more time 

Chorus: 

When oh when will it be over 

When will I lay these burdens down 

And when I die, dear Lord, in heaven 

Please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground 

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Instrumental 

I still grieve for my poor brother 

And I still hear my dear old mother cry 

When late that night they came and told her 

He'd lost his life down in the Big Shoal Mine 

Chorus: 

When oh when will it be over 

When will I lay these burdens down 

And when I die, dear Lord, in heaven 

Please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground 

Instrumental 

I have no shame, I feel no sorrow 

If on this earth not much I own 

I have the love of my sweet children 

An old plow mule, a shovel and a hoe 

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Chorus: 

When oh when will it be over 

When will I lay these burdens down 

And when I die, dear Lord, in heaven 

Please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground 

Yeah when I die, dear Lord, in heaven 

Please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground