C                              F            C
Poor hardworking miners, their troubles are great
                                        G
So often while working, they meet a sad fate
C                                F         C
Killed by some accident, there's no one to tell
                              G        C
Their mining's all over, poor miner farewell

F                    C
Only a miner, killed under the ground
                              G
Only a miner, but one more is gone
C                 F           C
Only a miner, but one more is gone
                           G        C
Leaving his wife and four children alone

C                       F          C      
Leaving his little ones out on the street
                                 G
Tired and hungry with nothing to eat
C                    F       C
Momma is jobless and papa is dead
                              G           C
They're coal miners' children, begging for bread

F                    C
Only a miner, killed under the ground
                              G
Only a miner, but one more is gone
C                 F           C
Only a miner, but one more is gone
                          G         C
Leaving his wife and four children alone

C                        F          C
When I'm in Kentucky, so often I'll meet
                                 G
Coal miners' children out on the street
C                      F           C
What are you doing, to them I have said
                              G           C
We're coal miners's children, begging for bread

F                    C
Only a miner, killed under the ground
                              G
Only a miner, but one more is gone
C                 F           C
Only a miner, but one more is gone
                          G         C
Leaving his wife and four children alone

C         
Their mining's all over
     F         C
Coal miner farewell