Lament For The Molly McGuires
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Suckin' up the coal dust into your lungs
Underneath the hills where there is no sun
Tryin' to make a livin' on a dollar a day
Diggin' coal in Pennsylvay-nye-aye
We left old Ireland, we left our homes
Across the ocean we had to roam
With five gossoons and a scrawny wife
Tryin' to make some kind of a life
Suckin' up the coal dust into your lungs
Underneath the hills where there is no sun
Tryin' to make a livin' on a dollar a day
Diggin' coal in Pennsylvay-nye-aye
But the Welsh and the English, the Germans, the Dutch
Controlled the mines; they didn't leave much
A tar-paper shanty, no Irish apply
The Mollies started blowin' all the mines sky high
Suckin' up the coal dust into your lungs
Underneath the hills where there is no sun
Tryin' to make a livin' on a dollar a day
Diggin' coal in Pennsylvay-nye-aye
A straw-boss shot, and an owner disappears
Many's a Welshman lost 'is ears
Company's store burned to the ground
The Molly Macguires are spreadin' all around
Suckin' up the coal dust into your lungs
Underneath the hills where there is no sun
Tryin' to make a livin' on a dollar a day
Diggin' coal in Pennsylvay-nye-aye
Blackjack Kehoe looked after his pack
Even the honest Irish though wouldn't fight back
Jack and his boys put fear in their shoals
The Molly Macguires are controllin' the coal
Suckin' up the coal dust into your lungs
Underneath the hills where there is no sun
Tryin' to make a livin' on a dollar a day
Diggin' coal in Pennsylvay-nye-aye
But terror ends as it had begun
Jack Mcfarland, he ended the run
He left as a Molly, and he brought their fate
After many years, he ended the hate
Suckin' up the coal dust into your lungs
Underneath the hills where there is no sun
Tryin' to make a livin' on a dollar a day
Diggin' coal in Pennsylvay-nye-aye