Down In The Mine Lyrics - Dierks Bentley

1 Here in Harlan County, the choices are few

2 To keep food on the table and the babies in shoes

3 You can grow marijuana way back in the pines

4 Or work for the man down in the mine

5 You never forget your first day in the hole

6 There's a pit in your stomach and your mouth's full of coal

7 There's no turning back once you make up your mind

8 As the cart rattles on down in the mine

9 Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud

10 And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs

11 Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines

12 Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave

13 Way down in the mine

14 Well the old timers talk but you just don't believe

15 It can all go to hell at two thousand feet

16 Life sways in the balance of nature and time

17 And fate has no mercy down in the mine

18 The news spreads like fire and burned through those hills

19 Hopes were held high but five men got killed

20 On the wings of canaries, your soul surely flies

21 While your bones spend eternity down in the mine

22 Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud

23 And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs

24 Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines

25 Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave

26 Way down in the mine

27 So take a flask from your crib can can and a pull of moonshine

28 And say a prayer for them boys down in the mine