1921 Lyrics

Deeper down I dive

Into the smoke

I trade my life

and break my back

Just to mine some coal

Try to keep my head down

And do as they please

But A Baldwin Felts

With a gun on his belt

Got his eyes on me

It gets hotter and hotter the deeper we go

We all go down but few come up

To see one day more

And the Company man will tell you other wise

But ask any man

With a pick in his hand

The devils in those mines

Oh and those mines they'll eat men alive

They're hungry for souls

Black lungs for black gold

Can't get out I've tried

Gun a man down on the courthouse steps

You can't get away

a mule killed and you're fired

a man who's killed is replaced

It gets hotter and hotter the deeper we go

We all go down but few come up

To see one day more

And the Company man will tell you other wise

But ask any man

With a pick in his hand

The devils in those mines

One million rounds 10,000 men

Climbing up on mountain guns are raised and 100 dead

Now they taking us down in cuffs and chains

But a life in the penn is better than a cold cold grave

Gets hotter and hotter the deeper we go

We all go down but few come up

To see one day more

And the Company man will tell you other wise

But ask any man

With a pick in his hand

The devils in those mines