UMWA
Album: Alias BD Jones
By: BD Jones
By: BD Jones
Duration
4:10
Description
The United Mine Workers of America, and the struggles that coal miners who aren't protected by it go through, and what's happenin to coal country in Appalachia.
Lyrics
UMWA DOWN IN WEST VIRGINIA IN THE YEAR 2010 A 2-MILE WIDE EXPLOSION TOOK THE LIVES OF 29 MEN NO UNION TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE JAWS OF MASSEY ENERGY OR THE BLAST THE RIPPED ASUNDER THE EARTH AN THE WHOLE COMMUNITY RED NECKS IN RED BANDANAS COAL MINERS ON THE MARCH OUR UNION OUR OWN PROTECTORS OUR BROTHER MINERS IN OUR HEARTS LIKE WHEN BIG BILL BLIZZARD BACK IN '21 FOUGHT AT BLAIR MOUNTAIN THAT DAY WE'RE UNION UMWA IN BUFFALO CREEK BACK IN '72 A SLURRY DAM DID BURST PITTSTON CALLED IT AN ACT O GOD 125 IN A HEARSE THE TVA BROUGHT ELECTRICITY TO THE FOLKS BACK IN THE '30'S THEN IN OUGHT-EIGHT BROUGHT A FLOOD O SLUDGE TO HARRIMAN TENNESSEE ONLY WORK TO BE HAD 'ROUND THERE GOTTA GET TO THE BLACK GOLD MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL PULL THE MEN OUT OF THE HOLE WHEN LONELY COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WILL SOON CEASE TO BE ROCK N SLURRY FILL THE VALLEYS N CREEKS THANKS TO MASSEY ENERGY
