Cold Shoulder

Come, all you coalminers
 Wherever you may be
 And listen to the story
 That I relate to thee
 My name is nothing extra
 But the truth to you I tell
 I am a coalminer
 And I'm sure I wish you well
 I was born in old Kentucky
 In a coal camp, born and bred
 I know about old beans
 Bulldog gravy and cornbread
 I know how the miners work and slave
 In the coalmines every day
 For a dollar in the company store
 For that is all they pay
 Mining is the most dangerous work
 In our land today
 Plenty of dirty, slaving work
 For very little pay
 Coalminers, won't you wake up
 And open your eyes and see
 What this dirty capitalist system
 Has done to you and me
 Dear miners, they will slave you
 Until you can't work no more
 And what will you get for your laborbut a dollar in the company store
 A tumbledown shack to live in
 Snow and rain pouring through the topand you have to pay the company rentand your payments will never stop
 They take our very lifeblood
 They take our children's lives
 Take fathers away from children
 Take husbands away from wivescoalminers, won't you organize
 Wherever you may be
 And make this a land of freedom
 For workers, like you and me
 I am a coalminer
 And I'm sure I wish you well
 Let's sink this capitalist system
 To the darkest pits of hell