Kentucky Mine
Diamond Rio"Kentucky Mine" is a song by Diamond Rio, released in 1994 in the Pop genre. The song is 4:04 long and contains 34 lines and 178 words.
Lyrics
0:11His eyes are greener than the meadows
0:17His hair is greyer than a ghost
0:22His lungs are blacker than the shadows
0:27That dance in circles down below
0:34You see them every Monday morning
0:40Electric halos light their way
0:46Five days of widows mourning
0:51But Friday rolls the stone away
0:58Kentucky mine doing time
1:04Never see the light of day
1:10Kentucky mine stand in line
1:15Just to dig your own grave
1:27From coal dust they make a living
1:33To coal dust they will return
1:39The earth is good but unforgiving
1:43And someone's got to keep the fire burnin'
1:50Daddy says listen to me
1:56Do not follow where my footsteps lead
2:02Kentucky mine doing time
2:08Never see the light of day
2:14Kentucky mine stand in line
2:19Just to dig your own grave
2:49And everything he said was true
2:54What's a Kentucky boy like me to do
3:08Ohoo it's true
3:15What's true
3:27Kentucky mine doing time
3:33Never see the light of day
3:39Kentucky mine stand in line
3:44Just to dig your own grave
3:51Kentucky mine
3:52Kentucky mine
4:02Kentucky mine
4:04Kentucky mine
His eyes are greener than the meadows His hair is greyer than a ghost His lungs are blacker than the shadows That dance in circles down below You see them every Monday morning Electric halos light their way Five days of widows mourning But Friday rolls the stone away Kentucky mine doing time Never see the light of day Kentucky mine stand in line Just to dig your own grave From coal dust they make a living To coal dust they will return The earth is good but unforgiving And someone's got to keep the fire burnin' Daddy says listen to me Do not follow where my footsteps lead Kentucky mine doing time Never see the light of day Kentucky mine stand in line Just to dig your own grave And everything he said was true What's a Kentucky boy like me to do Ohoo it's true What's true Kentucky mine doing time Never see the light of day Kentucky mine stand in line Just to dig your own grave Kentucky mine Kentucky mine Kentucky mine Kentucky mine
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