1) The men got up in the mornin’, said goodbye to their kids
Headed down into the mine just like their fathers did
Two miles down in darkness they worked the coal black seam
Breakin’ rocks and their bodies too just to buy the owner’s dream
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Twelve men dead down in the mine they join the sad parade
Men who didn’t have to die
But that’s how they were paid
2) They hadn’t been down too long when they heard a distant blast
They ran down deeper into the mine which filled with poison gas
It was every miner’s nightmare but they did what they could do
Hunkered down and waited for some help to make it through Chorus
Bridge
Safety was a side bar to the man they called the boss
His bottom line had always been his profit and his loss
He knew the politicians, gave money to his friends
He never fixed a goddamn thing and the rules were made to bend
3) Forty hours later the rescue team arrived
Way too late for most of them, only one survived Chorus
