Karaoké Working Man David Alexander

It's a working man l am and I've been down underground

And I swear to God if I ever see the sun

Or for any length of time

I can hold it in my mind

I never again will go down underground

At the age of sixteen years with my father close to tears

As he vowed never again to send his sons

To the dark recess of the mines

Where you age before your time

And the coal dust lies heavy on your lungs

It's a working man l am and I've been down underground

And I swear to God if I ever see the sun

Or for any length of time

I can hold it in my mind

I never again will go down underground

At the age of sixty-five

I pray to God I'm still alive

And the wheels above the mines no longer whine

And they finally close the hole where for years we clawed for coal

And never again will we go down underground

It's a working man l am and I've been down underground

And I swear to God if I ever see the sun

Or for any length of time

I can hold it in my mind

I never again will go down underground

It's a working man l am and I've been down underground

And I swear to God if I ever see the sun

Or for any length of time

I can hold it in my mind

I never again will go down underground