[Primeira Parte]
Basically we are all alone in the centre
Of a pickaxe mine
Black lung stings as the pickaxe swings
As the void of the mine closes in
The Devil Came and the Angels sang
A Song of the Holy Ghost
Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold
Like the dust I spit from my mouth
[Refrão]
Wooo oooo oooo
[Segunda Parte]
Remember the night with the barroom fight
Where I killed all of my best friends
We gambled it away with the whiskey open keg
And we never saw it again
Well I had a wife that I met back in High school
Her name was Lyla-Jean
We saved away to escape some place
On a local miner s minor pay
[Refrão]
Wooo oooo oooo
[Terceira Parte]
We saved so long the fall came and gone
At Least 27 times
It fell through the floorboards
Into deep dark darkness
And we never saw it again
West Virginia s home and that s
Where we re staying
To the blade of the bible hymn
Jesus says we re wicked so we just keep on pickin
At the scab of the open mine
[Refrão]
Wooo oooo oooo
