My daddy was a Miner in WV and he just passed away at 83 years old with black lung just two months ago. He was laying there in his sleep talking and thinking he was still working. He loved his job yet he was always tired. But he tried not to show it. My daddy had black hair and blue eyes many said he looked like Elvis. He looked so pretty with the coal around his eyes because the blue shined to bright. I miss him so much. He actually lived a very long time with only one lung capacity but he kept moving till a year ago he had his leg amputated and that kept him down. My daddy was a fighter and a gentle heart! God bless the Coal miners it gave them an honest living.
soldier OfGod Bless you’re heart. Know exactly how your daddy felt. It’s a brotherhood nobody knows about unless you’ve been there. We look out for each other keep the other man safe. Spend more time with them than we do our own family. Holidays, Birthdays, special occasions. It’s something special know your dad held on to that until the end.
Soldier OfGod my paw paw Jr was 83 when he died from black lung in Iaeger, WV and that was about 7 years ago, I was only 9 years old, and it was sad seeing the only grandpa I ever knew, it's hard when men with a Will to support their families pass on it was a very sad time, but to all miners we support and love you all
soldier OfGod that’s a touching story. Lord knows working in the mines ain’t easy, it’s a hard job and we risk everything when we go in the hole. All we can do is make an honest living and pray the good lord lets us come out and go home to our folks. It’s a brotherhood,everyone looks out for each other.
Thank you Dierks for this song. My grandfather was a coal miner. People like him kept this country going. Just as those miners of today are doing. Thank you to all of them too. Coal miner and coal hauler pride!
I wish everyone was proud and emotional as I am for this beautiful country and the people who made it what it is today. farmers, miners, truckers, and our military.
Thank you Mr. Bentley for this song. The only papaw I ever knew was a coal miner. He went in during his teens and came out in his sixties. Eventually the black lung took him. I miss that man.
I am one of those people from morocco 🇲🇦. I worked in a mine to extract phosphates in Morocco. I lived a beautiful life with wonderful people despite the hardships of life. I worked when I was 18 years old and spent more than 27 years working in the underground mine. I am now 63 years old, and this The comment was written by my son
thank you coal miners for everything. it seems people dont pay attention to people like coal miners,firefighters, soldiers and etc, they all break their backs so we can have a good safe life. so once again thank you very much
This song is awesome and very true, I work in WV, Ky, Va coal mines doing conveyor and belt work. It's a hard dangerous job but it's also in our blood, I'm 4th generation miner, I'm so proud to be a part of the brotherhood. God bless and protect us all.
My daddy was a coal miner in Harlan KY, where this song said. He lived being a miner. He started as a teenager and didn't quit until he was 65. Died six years later from a heart attack..also four brothers were miners in Harlan KY also.
I have a lot of respect for coal miners my good friend is a coal miner and he brakes his back for his family to eat I hear ppl talk bad about it but its a way of life for the men that do it I suport all coal miners
I think the saddest thing is that the men with their backs hunched and their boots worn are the very ones who bullshit to MSHA and defend these owners who couldn’t gice a shit less whether they live or die. I have never understood that, as a miner myself, and it just breaks my heart when I see it.
Discovered one of my relatives was a welsh coal miner. Involved in the 1980’s miners strike. I am learning welsh for him. Died recently about a decade ago.
I worked in Harlan for some years in coal. I still work in mining just hardrock now. I miss coal and the brotherhood we all had for each other. Great song
19 years been working at a coal mine, and do to COVID at the end of this month we will be running that last coal through the plant and shut down for I dont know when...always been proud to be a coal miner, like my dad was before me...
I love being a coal miner and hearing this song reminds me of the stories my grandfather tells me about working in the belly of the beast which made me want to work even harder then ever to make him proud carrying on the family legacy so thankyou to my brothers and sisters for working to help keep the lights on. West Virginia miner and proud of it
Thank you dierks. What a great song. Western PA coal truck driver here. I saw you at slippery rock back in 2007 or so. Long live King coal. That's all we got. #fjb
My Grandfather was killed in the coal mines in 1930 ..my dad was 3 yrs old, during the depression when it happened...I was born in the same mining camp that my grandfather died it....in 1951...coal is in our family.....we have live and died doing in.
My dad spent around 20 years in the mines hes out know thank god he said he misses it but i didnt like it i worried about him alot thanks to all the miners for the hard work and effort u put in to keep shoes on ur feet and clothes on ur back a roof over ur head and the food on the table thanks dad i love you
I was a coal miner in Co, Nm, and Mt for almost thirty years. Had to change job occupations due to the fancy govt bs. Thank you for this song. I agree with a lot of the comments. Make some of these hanky stompers go do a real days work for a change. Then maybe they would shut up.
It doesn't matter where you're from, we're all bothers in the coal hole. No matter where what color or sex. We've got to have one another's back threw all the bullshit and red tape they try to rap us up in.
Thank you to all the miners, you do more for us than some can see, and though some times you don't hear it we all thank you. To all miners, thank you for running our country, we all appreciate it a lot. :)
a nice tribute to some real americans who go down into the devil's den and work hard to keep america alive. THANK YOU COAL MINERS FOR YOUR SACRIFICES !
My mother’s family were immigrant coalminers from Poland in the early 1900’s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I have a grand uncle who is buried down in the coal mine and his name is on a memorial along with all the men lost is the mine in the 1930’s on that fateful day. My maternal grandfather wouldn’t go down in the mines and my mom and uncle were little and they came to Hamilton, Ontario to work in the industrial mills. When I sing this song, I change the place to Cape Breton. The story is the same and I get a lump in my throat. Absolutely a beautiful and haunting song that touches the lives of all miners and families.
My cousin andrew was a miner in east lynn wet virginia and almost lost his life BC of a accident that involved a roofing spike that shot up through his skull and he crawled out of the mines and lost a lot of blood but I'm so thankful for being able to still have him in my life I love him to death and he still has a few surgeries to go maybe he might have them be hind him but god has given him a different look on life and has given him another chance at life.
Bailey Clark I’m glad you understand at a young age. I’m an Alabama coal miner. We risk our lives everyday to make an honest living and keep the lights on. It’s a hard and dangerous job,but it’s our way of life.
worked mines in mcdowell wva and buchanan co va.and each time u go in u wonder if u ever come out again! rock has no conscience! that life is a tough one my friend!
Thank you! My grandpa had to quit school & start working in the coal mines in the 6th grade. The greatest part of my Grandpa Sergent's legacy was getting out of the mines & getting a good education so he could make a better life & future for his family. My Momma was born in Laredo West Va in 1939. Laredo, along with many other towns, washed away during the Bufffalo Creek Disaster in the early 70's. I'm proud to be part of a family from these parts!
Living in northeast Pennsylvania this hits home for me. I have no know family who were coal miners, but if I could I'd be down in those mines turning out that black gold. Anthracite coal is an amazing heat source. Just have to remember the sacrifice and pride that has gone into it and continues to this day. I've been down in the mine on tours and i'll tell you it must have been one hell of a life, but had I lived in the 1950's or before I'd absolutely be a coal miner. Great song, made me tear up a bit. Thank you to all miners both past and present for the work you do!
Charles Ferguson- that's as close to hell as I plan on being. I love my job as a miner and I love my brothers that I work with. I'm with them 6-7 days a week. If u want to be a miner do it.
Yeah cowboy Nick we ain't got a choice I doubt your granddad did too. It's deffinatly in your blood. I'm a fifth generation coal miner. An a 9thgeneration miner. I'm to currupt an rough around the edges to be anything else. It quitely drives you insane inside. But what do you do. You go to work everyday trying to make yourself laugh an smile an your buddies too. Because deep down your always wondering if your gonna go home that day. You gotta be tough almost a mean tough. Stupid tough. Hard going sob can't have no quit in yah. An pain hell you gotta learn how to grit your teeth an fight through that without giving it a second thought. Hell I come home most every nights my wife will say eww what's that giant bruies from or that cut an hell I won't even know that it ever happen I guess you just get used to it. Hell I grew up seeing it. It's normal life to me. My dad tried to keep me from it. It just didn't work. But I've done been bit by the bug now. Spent so much time doing it it's me it's what I know. Honestly I hate to miss a day. I miss my brothers I work with. Your so tight knit, they turn in to your family. You want the mine to stay open cause you know deep down you won't fit in no where else you find guys to replace the ones you work with. It's not a normal atmosphere there really is some of the best people you will ever meet in your life down in the mines big hearted honest hard working son of a guns.
Coal miner songs hit home with us that have ancestors that had to do that for survival. A lot of people, including This ol' boy, are spoiled and take for granted how easy we have it these days. God bless them souls that came before us that had to walk that arduous road.
These are some of the finest, nicest, hardworking people in the world. I grew up in the coal fields of southern West Virginia, it was a wonderful time in my life and I would not trade for anything in the world. I honor and respect all those down in the mine!
There are miners of all stripes that have suffered ... white lung is a real thing among salt miners in the world , silicosis , and God only knows the ailments of the metal miners here and throughout the world . If you want to remember another Branch of Service to this country , thank a Miner , no matter what they have put their health at risk to mine , be it coal , salt, copper , gold, silver. lead , even sand, for the rest of us.
My Old Man and my brother are both bosses in the mines, Obama made sure I didn't continue that family tradition. I wish the coal mines would return to how it was when I was a kid.
@@twiexcursori lotta people thought it was the market the made coal slow down but it was actually regulations on what quality coal can be burned. its simple if they can profit they will mine if they cant they wont. regulations make it harder to profit
miners actually invented life-saving oxygen cages for the canaries that protected them. the mining companies didn't give a damn about those birds but the miners did. look it up.
I'm an Illinois coal miner... do not give us credit... give credit to the guys working 48 inch seams or less💯 I could never do that and my respect goes out
i love his voice. it really captures the fellings of this video. When i see this video i think of shamokin pa minersvile pa ashland pa coaltownship pa and Centralia PA. I love our heratage and wish i was part of it. this music feels so suttel and makes you think back when coal was king. i listen to alot of music this one and the song about shamokin relly speacks volumes to me. Thanks for the mix. Its gorgous
Wish the like button had a love opinion. Coal mines here in washington state have been close to 80 -120 yrs and ill always love and respect my ancestors that worked in some of the harrashes mines to have lived. Carbonado and wilkeson. Melmont all the way to fair fax and the manley moore mines with in the evens creek coak and coal co. Your all my heros. Fun fact as well. Carbonado was named after carbondale pa. But got re named due to confusion
i played this song for a friend and he said does it look like i care... well i'm pissed about that coal miners risk their lives everyday same as police officers, firefighters, and the US military
charles fite we sure do. Like Dierks said,it can all go to hell at 2000 feet. When we go down the cage everyday we risk not coming back out. The mines can be a scary place if things go south. You can’t just walk out a door. For most of us it’s a way of life. Coal runs in our blood.
"What force leads a man To a life filled with danger High on seas or a mile underground? It's when need is his master And poverty's no stranger, And there's no other work to be found" Silly Wizard
