Waiting At The Gate Lyrics

The song Waiting At The Gate is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Anthology in the year 2006 .



Tell the miners' kids and wives
There's a blast in the number five
And the families I see standing at the gate
The inspector years ago said number five's a deadly hole
And the men most likely won't come out alive

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate
Smoke and fire does boil and roll from that dark and deadly hole
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate

The inspector told the boss, it was more than a year ago
You're risking these men's lives in number five
That hole's full of fumes and dust, full of high explosive gas
But the boss said we'll just have to take the chance

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate
Smoke and fire does boil and roll from that dark and deadly hole
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate

Well the men in the number five kissed their wives and kids goodbye
Then they walk with their lunch kits up the hill
Everybody told the owner that this deadly day would come
But he said we had to work to pay our bills

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate
Smoke and fire does roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate

Well I tried to get a look of the face I often know
As the men are carried out wrapped up in sheets
I can hear the church bells ringing for the one hundred eleven dead
I can hear the families weeping in the streets

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate
Smoke and fire does roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate

This explosion struck on Wednesday
And I stood by the gate till Saturday
Till they laid my daddy out with the other men
In the pocket of his shirt I found a little note he wrote
Never go down in a dangerous mine again

Waiting at the gate, we are waiting at the gate
Smoke and fire does roll and boil from that dark and deadly hole
While the miners' kids and wives wait at the gate



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?

Waiting At The Gate