Blue Diamond Mines

I remember the ways in the bygone dayswhen we was all in our prime

When us and

John L. we give the old man helldown in the

Blue Diamond

MineWell the whistle would blow 'for the rooster crowfull two hours before daylight

When a man done his best and earned his good restat seven dollars a night

In the mines in the minesin the

Blue Diamond

MinesI worked my life away

In the mines in the mines

In the Blue

Diamond Mines

I fall on my knees and pray.

You old black gold you've taken my lungyour dust has darkened my home

And now I am old and you've turned your backwhere else can an old miner go

Well it's

Algomer Block and

Big Leather

Woodsnow its

Blue Diamond too

The bits are all closed get another jobwhat else can an old miner do?

Now the union is dead and they shake their headswell mining has had it's day

But they're stripping off my mountain topand they pay me eight dollars a day