Here I sit in this dark black pit
Guarding the door letting the people in and out
My only friend is a candle light
So wet and cold I am shaking to the bones
Men of steel works the seam
Laying down their life's for our dream
The man all black covered in soot
Their eyes reflecting my candle light
Ponies pull their wagons out
Filled with coal that the miners have broke
Men of steel works the seam
Laying down their life's for our dream
Down down follow the ore
Through the black country soul
Flames fed by the coal
Building a nation and make us proud
Men walk through some never return
Sometimes I think it's the gate to hell
Demons dwell behind this door
Taking their lives and exchanging
Them for coal
Down down follow the ore
Through the black country soul
Flames fed by the coal
Building a nation and make us proud
Down down follow the ore
Through the black country soul
Flames fed by the coal
Building a nation and make us proud
Down down follow the ore
Through the black country soul
Flames fed by the coal
Building a nation and make us proud