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15 Coal Miner Songs To Get You Started
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Top Songs Written About Coal Mining
| | Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis, probably the best-known coal-mining song |
| | Ballard Of Barney Graham by Della Mae Graham |
| | Coal Miner’s Daughter by Loretta Lynn |
| | Hazard, Kentucky by Phil Ochs |
| | Black Lung by Hazel Dickens, awfully descriptive |
| | Come All You Coal Miners by Sarah Ogan Gunning |
| | I Am A Girl Of Constant Sorrow by Sarah Ogan Gunning, a movie tie-in, perhaps? |
| | Coal Miner’s Blues (traditional) |
| | Explosion In The Fairmount Mines by Blind Alfred Reed |
| | Red Hill Mining Town by U2, I guess you have to like U2 to like this one! |
| | Coal Miner's Blues by The Carter Family |
| | West Virginia Mine Disaster by Molly Slemp, another song about a mining tragedy |
| | I'm a Coal Mining Man by Tom T. Hall |
| | Roof Boltin' Daddy by Gene Carpenter |
| | Miner's Prayer by Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakam, a good prayer always comes in handy for the mines |
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