Dying Miner Lyrics

The song Dying Miner is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Anthology in the year 2006 .



In a half and an hour ago,
Way down in this tunnel of coal,
Gas caught fire from somebody's lamp.
And the miners are choking in smoke.

Goodbye to d**kie and Honey,
Goodbye to the wife that I love.
One of these men not coming home,
Tonight when the work whistle blows.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.

It looks like the end for me,
And all of my buddies I see.
We're all writing letters to children we love,
Please carry our word to our wives.

We, found a little place in the air,
Crawled and drug ourselves here.
But the smoke is bad and the fumes coming in,
And the gas is burning my eyes.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.

Forgive me for the things I done wrong,
I love you lots more than you know.
When the night whistle blows and I don't come home,
Do all that you can to help mom.

I can hear the moans and groans,
More than a hundred good men.
Just work and right and try to see,
That this never happens again.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.

My eyes are blinded with fumes,
But it sounds like the men are all gone,
'Cept Joe Valentini, Fred Gussler and George,
Trapped down in this hell hole of fire.

Please name our new baby Joe,
So he'll grow up like big Joe.
He'll work and he'll right and he'll fix up the mines,
So fire can't kill daddy no more.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.



Woody Guthrie - Anthology

Nov 2006

  1. A Dollar Down
  2. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
  3. Bad Lee Brown
  4. Blowing Down The Road
  5. Boll Weevil Blues
  6. Brown Eyes
  7. Bury Me Beneath The Willow
  8. Columbus Stockade
  9. Cumberland Gap
  10. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
  11. Get Along Little Doggies
  12. Hang Knot
  13. Hey Lolly Lolly
  14. Howjadoo
  15. Jack Hammer Blues
  16. John Henry
  17. Johnny Hard
  18. Lonesome Day
  19. Lost John
  20. More Pretty Girls Than One
  21. Old Time Religion
  22. Ride Old Paint
  23. Skip To My Lou
  24. Sourwood Mountain
  25. Springfield Mountain
  26. Struggle Blues
  27. Great Dust Storm
  28. Golden Vanity
  29. Dying Miner
  30. Tom Joad Blues Pt. 1
  31. Tom Joad Blues Pt. 2
  32. Union Burying Ground
  33. Waiting At The Gate
  34. We Shall Be Free
  35. What Did The Deep Sea Say?
  36. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
  37. Whoopie Tii Yi Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
  38. Will You Miss Me?

Dying Miner