Sweet Guinevere Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight 

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA 

You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine 

So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind 

She loves a young man and he lives in the town 

And he leaves the house early for he works underground 

He makes a good wage for a coal miner's son 

And she's a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one 

Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight 

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA 

You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine 

So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind 

She knows her good mother's not feelin' no pain 

She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain 

She paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed way 

Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray