[Chorus]
He was a coal mining man, a coal mining man
Pop used to tell me, "Son, do the best you can."
He raised his family on a coal miner's pay
And he worked like a dog to his dying day
[Verse 1]
We were five little children and we lived just like rats
In a coal mining town in a tarpaper shack
Momma drank liquor 'til she lost her mind
She couldn't stand being married to a man in the mine
[Chorus]
He was a coal mining man, a coal mining man
Pop used to tell me, "Son, do the best you can."
He raised his family on a coal miner's pay
And he worked like a dog to his dying day
[Verse 2]
I heard thе man on the news at a quarter to tеn
Tellin' about how that coal mine fell in
Timbers gave way and the roof fell down
Now there's twenty-three miners buried under the ground
[Chorus]
He was a coal mining man, a coal mining man
Pop used to tell me, "Son, do the best you can."
He raised his family on a coal miner's pay
And he worked like a dog to his dying day
[Chorus]
He was a coal mining man, a coal mining man
Pop used to tell me, "Son, do the best you can."
He raised his family on a coal miner's pay
And he worked like a dog to his dying day
And he worked like a dog to his dying day