When the whistle blows each morning,
and I walk down in that cold dark mine.
I say a prayer to my dear Savior,
\”Please let me see the sunshine one more time.\”
When . . . oh when will it be over?
When will I lay these burdens down?
And when I die, dear Lord in Heaven,
Please take my soul from \’neath that cold dark ground.
I still grieve for my poor brother,
And I still hear my dear old mother cry.
When late that night they came and told her,
He\’d lost his life down in the Big Shoal Mine.
Miner\’s Prayer was written by Dwight Yoakam in memory of his brother
who died in the Big Shoal Mine in Kentucky.
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MINER\’S PRAYER
When the whistle blows each morning,
and I walk down in that cold dark mine.
I say a prayer to my dear Savior,
\”Please let me see the sunshine one more time.\”
When . . . oh when will it be over?
When will I lay these burdens down?
And when I die, dear Lord in Heaven,
Please take my soul from \’neath that cold dark ground.
I still grieve for my poor brother,
And I still hear my dear old mother cry.
When late that night they came and told her,
He\’d lost his life down in the Big Shoal Mine.
Miner\’s Prayer was written by Dwight Yoakam in memory of his brother
who died in the Big Shoal Mine in Kentucky.