Down in the Coal Mine — The miner sings, "I am a jovial collier lad, as blythe as blythe can be / And l… Down, Down, Down — The singer describes the conditions at the Oak Hill mine "that goes down, down,… The Dream of the Miner's Child — "A miner was leaving his home for his work When he heard his little child screa… The Driver Boy — A teenage boy is too sick to drive his mule in the mines. His drunken father, t… Durham Strike (Durham Lockout) — "In our Durham County I am sorry for to say, That hunger and starvation is incr… The Dying Mine Brakeman (The True and Trembling Brakeman) — The young mine train motorman is horrified to discover that, because he could n… The Eldorado Mining Disaster — "With sorrow we remember, the middle of July, When those six noble miners were … The English Miner (The Coolgardie Miner, Castles in the Air) — A newly-arrived prospector sits and dreams of his home and his family left behi… Few Days — "Well, I pitched my tent on this campground, Few days, few days, And I give old… The Fools of Forty-Nine — Crowds head for California and the gold fields. En route they suffer poverty, h…