Miner's Prayer

Dwight Yoakam & Ralph Stanley

When the whistle blows each morning

And I walk down in that cold, dark mine

I say a prayer to my dear Saviour

Please let me see the sunshine one more time

Chorus:

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

Instrumental

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

Chorus:

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

Instrumental

I have no shame, I feel no sorrow

If on this earth not much I own

I have the love of my sweet children

An old plow mule, a shovel and a hoe

Chorus:

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

Yeah when I die, dear Lord, in heaven

Please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground