Give My Love to Marie

Give My Love to Marie - James Talley

I'm a black lung miner

From east Tennessee

Raised my family

On cold dust and bean

That old black lung's got me no life

Left in me

Left in me

Said my latern

In the window

Give my love

To Marie

Twenty five years

I've worked

In the mines

Where the earth is as black

As a cold winter night

There's a million in the ground but not a penny

For me

Not for me

Said my latern

In the window

Give my love

To Marie

I've loved all my children

Six sons of mine

I pray that they never must work in the mine

For the black lung will get them they'll die

Just like me

Just like me

Said my latern

In the window

Give my love

To Marie

There's frost on the ground

Ice in the tree

The air is so heavy

I can't hardly breathe

Oh the old black lung's got me but soon

I'll be free

I'll be free

Said my latern

In the window

Give my love

To Marie

Said my latern

In the window

Give my love

To Marie

Said my latern in the window