Coal mining songs?!
Question: There's the obvious two: Big John and Sixteen Tons, but other than that I'm drawing a blank. Do you know any others?
(Oh, and technically, Coal Miner's Daughter, ain't a coal mining song or is it?). Extra consideration given for a tragic element. If you can't think of any, go for mining songs of any nature.
Answers: There's the obvious two: Big John and Sixteen Tons, but other than that I'm drawing a blank. Do you know any others?
(Oh, and technically, Coal Miner's Daughter, ain't a coal mining song or is it?). Extra consideration given for a tragic element. If you can't think of any, go for mining songs of any nature.
Coal Miner's Blues
Come All You Coal Miners
Disaster at The Mannington Mine
Explosion in the Fairmont Mines
Hazard Kentucky
Hello Coal Miner
The High Sheriff of Hazard
No Christmas in Kentucky
Paradise
There are many more coal mining songs, and many, many more mining songs in general. I have an entire album of songs of the Anthracite (a type of coal)miners somewhere.
Aunt Molly Jackson
Sarah Ogan Gunning
Jim Garland
Hazel Dickens
All are (were) miners, or union organizers, or miners wives, and all wrote many coal mining songs.
Dark As A Dungeon
Great Mining Disaster (Bee Gees)
Coal Miner's Blues, Nine Pound Hammer, Dark As a Dungeon, Working In a Coal Mine. And technically, Coal Miner's Daughter IS a coal mining song, because she's talking about her life with a father who was a miner. It's just from a child's point of view.
"Dark As A Dungeon," by Merle Travis, probably the best mining song ever. Incidentally, I think he also wrote "Sixteen Tons." I recall hearing an old song by Vernon Dalhart about a mining disaster, but sorry the title escapes me. Oh, and "Have A Drink On Me," by Lonnie Donnegan, but I suppose that is neither country music and not a real mining song either.
Coal Miners Prayer - Dwight Yoakam
New York Mining Disaster 1941, by The Bee Gees. Released in 1967.
the only thing that pops into my mind is Coal Miners Daugher.U already have that but it is a nice song
The first one that came to mind for me is by Sara Evans. I think it's simply called Coal Mine. It's a song about a man who works in the coal mine and she wants him home because she misses making love to him. It's a really good, catchy song though.