Well, over Montcoal, there descends a black-gold cloud of mourning
The explosion, they say, erupted with no kind of warning
Now the hands are all a-fold that the Lord may spare the last four
But it never will come, the miracle they's a-praying for
It's heard that things ain't as bad as they were in the backwards years
Ain't no need for a union no more, those are old fashioned fears
"Naw, boys, be assured, you ain't alone down there
The company's gentler now, it'll take better care
But the cameras are hungry for a shot of some red, grieving face
And tomorrow they'll pack up and leave for some other place
For nothing sells quite like a image of pain and despair
Worst in forty years, but at least it'll fill the dead air
Oh, leave 'em in the ground
Leave 'em in the ground
Leave 'em in the ground
Just leave 'em in the ground
That's where they are now
And that's where they've been kept anyhow
Now, the blood from black veins lights up all the Emperor's towers
So long, they've been gasping, choked by two forms of power
While the children are told, be consoled, there's an investigation
While fire burns deep in the earth as it does in Damnation
'Tis a stale old tale, what's happened in poor West Virginia
Shut your eyes, point your finger, and you'll find the primary sinner
In a flash, the blood's wiped away from the struggles they fought
And I lay stunned at all the tears them wives have still got
Now the steam shovel pounds for the bodies of twenty-nine men
And they'll pull 'em out, just so they can bury them again
The steam shovel pounds for the bodies of all twenty-nine
But it seems like a joke, a cruel and obscene waste of time
Just leave'em in the ground
Leave 'em in the ground
Leave 'em in the ground
Leave 'em in the ground
Leave it in the ground
Just leave it in the ground
Leave it in the ground
Leave 'em in the ground
It's fine, it's fine, it's fine
For there's a line of young miners behind them
Oh, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine
For there's a line of young miners behind them
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