The Coal Miner Song - Jimmy Joe Lee Video

They all lived and gave their soul... did it all for old king coal. The song, the pictures, offer a brief look at a way of life that few of us can even begin to imagine.

Credits:

Lead guitar: Steve Walters
Fiddle: Richard Chon
Harp: Harpin' Johnny
Rhythm guitar: JJ Lee
Music Producer: Ken Kraft
Video Producer: Mark Thornton


? 2008 Monogram Recording
© 1970 Rondell Music
All rights reserved.

god bless ya all, ...
god bless ya all,was 12yrs in a yorkshire pit,how could that fkn cow kill us all? thatcher to? to american buddys

my pap and my great ...
my pap and my great great grandpap are coal miners?

My great- ...
My great-grandfather was a? miner in Wales - as were all his male relatives. He survived an explosion in 1885 that killed 81 men and boys. A few years before that the neighbouring colliery lost 231 in two years. The job cost him his leg, his lungs and his life. Hard graft. Thank what gods you pray to your sons never have to go down the mine.

Quickchat: My ...
Quickchat: My mining is level 98 add me on runescape: shake hat?

@arkansan123 coal ...
@arkansan123 coal mineing is ahard job but it? is a bad job ive be in mud up to my knees ive see man get crushed by rocks you have no right to talk s**t little boy

The Coalminer, the ...
The Coalminer, the Deep Six Oil driller, the Mom and Pop Farmers and honest Store keepers still scrambling to make a decent living all cry out for the applause of us all. Their sweat, their broken backs? and stretched muscles are the Sacrifice upon which the rest of us depend. I'm proud today to stand up and stand for the rights of these tireless Workers. Karma and God will sort out the rest.

lumber, deep sea ...
lumber, deep sea fishing, steel working, and many others are hard working jobs. Coal miners are not anymore special than any of these? hard working Americans. The coal industry dose not deserve any respect at all. Look at what the industry is doing to the Appalachian Mountains. Destroying the lives of people that live in those hills and the all around natural world. The idea that i should honor that is disgusting.

My husband is a ...
My husband is a coal miner (he roof bolts) and i want to tell all of you coal miners that if you have a mrs at home she is probably the person who is most proud of you and supportive of you! You have a hard job and if noone wants to tell you that they are proud of you? I will!

I don't believe ...
I don't believe coalmining is the only really hardworking job, but hard as hell it is, I can say that coalmining is nothing for the nowaday kids. A really beautiful song, even for a? woodsman.

every day you risk ...
every day you risk your life . somebody should tell somebody that roof bolts don't hold? the roof up only together.

Nice? song, good job
Nice? song, good job

same here im a coal ...
same here im a coal miner myself, id love to see some oome of these? what they call "hard workers" do our job, they cant handle it..mans job

I AM AN? EASTERN KY ...
I AM AN? EASTERN KY COALMINER, I RUN A ROOFBOLTER 10 HRS A DAY 14 CUTS A SHIFT!! IVE BEEN COVERED UP TWICE ! IVE SEEN THINGS ONLY ME N THEM BOYS SEEN !! IF YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A COALMINER GO GET YOUR CARD N COME ON DOWN!! ROOFBOLTER1972

My Grandfather hand ...
My Grandfather hand dug coal and sold it 12cents a ton back around 1940's. Along about that time the United Mine Workers came into power. He gave them 4cents a? ton or esle they would blow up your house and family. Here in Jellico, Tn. they blew up a coal temple edge of town killing 1 man passing by w/ horse drawn wagon in the 40's. My father- John G. O'Hara (attny) represented UMW for a while. He was out drinking w/ frnds when a hit man came to kill one of his frnds. He got out. John Lewis Turn

did it for 3 months ...
did it for 3 months, work on railroad now, coal miners may be only fellows that got it worse than us, worst part, can't get the dust off, soaks into your pores, wash up, and in a half hour, seaps out of your skin pores , and looks like you never? even cleaned up, hard workin' fellows tho

SEARCH JOHNNY? CASH ...
SEARCH JOHNNY? CASH LADY GAGA FOR A NEW TRIBUTE TO THE MAN IN BLACK thanx folks!

My dad worked the ...
My dad worked the cold mines in northwest Alabama. You gotta be brave to go down in those mines and work an 8 hour shift. He also went down into a 92 foot deep well on a bucket with a friend holding the rope. He dipped the mud into the bucket and his friend pulled the bucket up and dumped it out. That left him down at the bottom of the well without anything. You really got to trust that friend.I asked him why he did all this and? he said ," for my family"

lord this brings ...
lord this brings back so many memories worked the mines for a while as a youngster lost two unkles to mineing .i believe all tha men in the family worked there at the same time they had it rough in those days this was in ohio in the late 40,s and fifty,s?

WOW?
WOW?

true coal miners ...
true coal miners think of everyone but themselves when going below. we're not there for fun, but for family. when i say we, been doing it 20? years. Love it, family loves me for doing it. Let's all be proud of being the baddest of the human race, {COAL MINERS}

My Dad and both of ...
My Dad and both of my grandfathers worked mines in Southern West? Virginia. My Dad lost 3 fingers on his left hand while working a second shift. He said he never drew a sober breath in the next year after that.

I have 3 girls we ...
I have 3 girls we live in West Virginia there prayer Every night Dear Lord we love you and we thank-you for our daddy,please God? bring him back home tommrow morning.

[B] The other men ...
[B] The other men ran for hours down abandoned tunnels, lost, instinctively trying to increase their elevation. At an air shaft? an old Italian miner climbed 50 feet straight up the cliff like surface of the shaft & got surface rescuers to pull the rest of the men out. What a sick deal.

[A] @6907lankershim ...
[A] @6907lankershim You are familiar with what happened but for any readers out there, they were mining a very rich anthracite vein under the Susquehanna river which punched through the mine's roof. 12 drowned immediately. The interconnectedness of the tunnels under Scranton/ Wilkes Barre caused ALL the mines to flood! A? sweetheart deal between union bosses & company. They flirted w/disaster, mining too close to the river, ignoring laws which were in place to prevent such a thing. [CON'T]

love the song, My ...
love the song, My daughter and I are doing a little video on coal? mining in Osage County, Kansas. Just a local thing. I'd sure appreciate it if I could use a little bit of the song in this video. Sincerely, Rick

Yes, exactly. I ...
Yes, exactly. I remember watching it on TV. They? were pushing old railroad freight cars into the whirlpool in the river trying to plug it up. There's an awesome song about it "Last Day of the Northern Field" by the Donegal Weavers. I think they're from Nanticoke, PA. It's written by one R. Stephens and is also known as "The Ballad of Myron Thomas". It's the story of a miner trapped in the flooded mine.

"after the ...
"after the Susquehanna flooded the Northern Field." You're? talking about the Knox mine Disaster, right? What a tragedy.

My grandfather went ...
My grandfather went to work in the coal mines in Indiana when he was 13, opening? the door for mules. He moved to West Virginia in the early 20s and then to Shamokin, PA and then to Nanticoke. He worked 48 years underground, retiring in 1959 after the Susquehanna flooded the Northern Field.

These Men in ...
These Men in Appalachia work so hard with so little pay. Many lost their lives working? the mines just to feed their families. They are to be respected and remembered for all their hard work. God Bless each and everyone of you.

My family lived and ...
My family lived and worked the mines in Harlan County Kentucky....My uncle took me to the mines.....we stopped to chew on some beechnut....He took me fishing in the Cumberland River and we sat on a big old rock and broke crawdads to fish with. He would come home from work 6 feet tall and with his? face as dark as night , his eyes were white as the clouds and a smile I will never forget. .How I miss that man.

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