Hazel Dickens 1950s
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You can tell them in the country, tell them in the town Miners down in Mingo laid their shovels down we won’t pull another pillar, load another ton or lift another finger until the union we have won Chorus: Stand up boys, let the bosses know Turn your buckets over, turn your lanterns low There’s fire in our hearts and fire in our soul but there ain’t gonna be no fire in the hole Daddy died a miner and grandpa he did too, I’ll bet this coal will kill me before my working days is through And a hole this dark and dirty an early grave I find And I plan to make a union for the ones I leave behind