The Dying Miner
Pete Seeger

It happened an hour ago,
Way down in this tunnel of coal,
Gas caught fire from somebody's lamp.
And the miners are choking in smoke.

Goodbye to Dickie and Honey,
Goodbye to the wife that I love.
Lot of these men not coming home,
Tonight when the work whistle blows.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.

It looks like the end for me,
And all of my buddies I see.
We're all writing letters to children we love,
Please carry our word to our wives.

We, found a little place in the air,
Crawled and drug ourselves here.
But the smoke is bad and the fumes coming in,
And the gas is burning my eyes.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.

Forgive me for the things I done wrong,
I love you lots more than you know.
When the night whistle blows and I don't come home,
Do all that you can to help mom.

I can hear the moans and groans,
More than a hundred good men.
Just work and fight and try to see,
That this never happens again.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.

My eyes are blinded with fumes,
But it sounds like the men are all gone,
'Cept Joe Valentini, Fred Gussler and George,
Trapped down in this hell hole of fire.

Please name our new baby Joe,
So he'll grow up like big Joe.
He'll work and he'll fight and he'll fix up the mines,
So fire can't kill daddy no more.

Dear sisters and brothers goodbye,
Dear mother and father goodbye.
My fingers are weak and I cannot write,
Goodbye Centralia, goodbye.


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Lyrics by Pete Seeger

  Abiyoyo [#]   Adam The Inventor   All My Children Of The Sun   All My Trials   Alleluya   America, The Beautiful   Arrange And Re-Arrange   Ballad Of The Fort Hood Three   Banks Of Marble   Banks of the Ohio   Barbara Allen [Live]   Battle Of New Orleans   Be Kind to Your Parents   Belle Starr   Billy Barlow   Blow The Man Down   Both Sides Now   Bring Them Home   Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)   Business   Camptown Races   Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]   Cement Octopus   De Colores   Die Gedanken Sind Frei   Down By The River   Down by the Riverside [African American Spiritual]   Draft Dodger Rag   English Is Cuh-ray-zee   False From True   Foggy Dew   From Way Up Here   Go Tell Aunt Rhodie   God Bless The Grass   Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]   Guantanamera (Live)   Henry My Son   Hobo's Lullaby   Hobo's Lullaby   House Of The Rising Sun   How Can I Keep From Singing   I Ride An Old Paint   I've Been Working On The Railroad   I’ve Been Working On The Railroad   If I Had A Hammer (Album Version)   If This World Survives   It Really Isn't Garbage   Jackaro   Jacob's Ladder   Jarama Valley   John Brown's Body   John Henry   John Riley   John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [...   King Henry   Last Train To Nuremberg   Letter To Eve   Little Boxes   Little Fat Baby   Living In The Country   Mastinchele Wachipi Olewan   Michael Row The Boat Ashore   Michael Row The Boat Ashore (Live)   Michael, Row the Boat Ashore   Molly Malone   My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs   My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms   My Name Is Liza Kalvelage   My Rainbow Race   No Irish Need Apply   Now We Sit Us Down   Ode To A Composer Bach At Treblinka   Oh Susanna [#]   Oh What A Beautiful City   Oh, I Had A Golden Thread   Oh, What a Beautiful City!   Old Devil Time   Old Joe Clark [#]   One Grain Of Sand   Or Else   Our Generation   Peg And Awl   Preicious Friend   Queen Anne Front   Quite Early Morning   Quite Early Morning [*]   River   River Song   Roll On, Columbia   Shenandoah   Skip to My Lou   Snow Snow   Solartopia   Song Of The World's Last Whale   Summertime   Take It From DrKing   Talking Ben Tre   Talking Union   Teacher Uncle Ho   The Ballad of Ira Hayes   The Bells of Rhymney   The Bells of Rhymney [#]   The Fox   The House of the Rising Sun   The River That Flows Both Ways   The Torn Flag   The Water Is Wide   The Wreck of the Old 97   The Wreck of the Old 97   There'll Come A Day   Throw Away That Shad Net   Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save To...   Tomorrow's Children   Turn, Turn, Turn   Tzena Tzena Tzena   Tzena, Tzena, Tzena   Uncle Ho   Union Maid   Waist Deep In The Big Muddy   Walking Down Death Row   Walking Down Death Row [*]   Water Is Wide (O Waly Waly)   We Shall Not Be Moved   We Shall Overcome   We Will Love Or We Will Perish   When Johnny Comes Marching Home   Where Have All The Flowers Gone   Where Have All The Flowers Gone?   Which Side Are You On?   Wimoweh (Mbube)   Wimoweh (Mbube) [Live]   Wonderful Friends   Words Words Words

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