Coal Minin' Man Lyrics - Singles - Ricky Skaggs

Daylight of dark 

In rain or shine 

It don't much matter 

Down in the mine 

Where the tunnel's deep 

Lord, the air gets thin 

That's the way of life 

For the minin' man 

His lungs are weak 

His back is gone 

His sixty years 

Are plainly shown 

Lived half his life 

Down in the ground 

A cold steel hammer 

Rings a mournful sound 

Daylight of dark 

In rain or shine 

It don't much matter 

Down in the mine 

Where the tunnel's deep 

Lord, the air gets thin 

That's the way of life 

For the minin' man 

I'll tell you, Son 

He said to me 

There's just two things 

I pray to see 

That the day my Savior 

Calls me home 

And to see my son 

Stop minin' coal 

Oh daddy dear 

I'll tell you true 

There's nothing else 

For me to do 

But to make my livin' 

Underneath this land 

And live and die 

A coal minin' man 

Daylight of dark 

In rain or shine 

It don't much matter 

Down in the mine 

Where the tunnel's deep 

Lord, the air gets thin 

That's the way of life 

For the minin' man 

I'll make my livin' 

Underneath this land 

And die like you 

A coal minin' man