For a dollar in the company store, for that is all they pay.
Coal mining is the most dangerous work in our land today With plenty of dirty.
Coal miner, won't you wake up, and open your eyes and see What the dirty capitalist system is doing to you and me. They take fathers away from children, and husbands away from wives. Oh miner, won't you organize wherever you may be And make this a land of freedom for workers like you and me. A tumbled-down shack to live in, snow and rain pours in the top. You have to pay the company rent, your dying never stops.