If you can do the dirty work...so can Indown in the ground instead of up in the skynsome birds chirp and some birds singnI guess I got what it takes for this sort of thingnnI'm a canary in the mines so save your breathnbut run like hell if I catch my deathna canary in the mines...a man's best friendnyou never know what's around the bendnnMy daddy saved lives and my mamma did toontumbled off the perch like they're supposed to donit's the family business so come what maynbut I wouldn't mind living for another daynnI'm a canary in the mines so save your breathnbut run like hell if I catch my deathna canary in the mines...a man's best friendnyou never know what's around the bendnnThat gas'll get you like a hammer in the headnone minute you're alive and the next you're deadnwell...you think a miner's life is hardncome and spend some time in my backyardnnI'm a canary in the mines so save your breathnbut run like hell if I catch my deathna canary in the mines...a man's best friendnyou never know what's around the bend