Search results for 'The Northern Miner'

I was born one hundred years after the Rush of Forty Nine
To a Northern Ontario Gold Miner who said Son go find yourself a Mine
I always felt so

Green Rolling Hills

Emmylou Harris

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town

1978

They'll keep me and never let me go

My daddy said, don't ever be a miner
For a miner's grave is all you'll ever own
'Cause the hard times are

Song of the Yukon Rose

Chris LeDoux

Powder River

1990

There's a place on the yukon river, called the carriboux saloon.
Where the miners go, to spend their gold,
An' listen to the sad, sweet tune.

The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

Hazel Dickens

Hazel & Alice

1973

linger here
   They'll keep me and never let me go.

My daddy said don't ever be a miner
or a miner's grave is all you'll ever own
There's hard times

Polka Playin' Henry

Stompin' Tom Connors

25 of the Best Stompin' Tom Souvenirs

1998

Come and listen to the music of the Northern Land
The hootin, rootin, tootin Henry Kelnic Band
From the boogie, to the oohmpas and the Oompapa

Cash registers, cash registers, cash registers, cash registers

Oil drilling off the coast of Northern California
Skyscrapers built without opening

I grew up in a grade A country
A miner town where everyone knew everybody
And that Alaska midnight sun
I'd always dream of a city light sidewalk town

new company to keep

But the train derailed in Northern Alabama
Left a place somewhere in Tennessee
A half a day until we reach Atlanta
Maybe I'll find

Green Rolling Hills

Kathy Mattea

Coal

2008

linger here
They'll keep me and never let me go

My dad said, " Don't ever be a miner
For a mine's grave is all you'll ever owe"
There's hard times

Well, I heard it in a seashell that Sally sold
Before the Silicon Valley mode

We had the northern Cali cold in seasons
A story of two worlds we believed

Cash registers, cash registers

Oil-drilling off the coast of Northern California
Skyscrapers designed without opening windows
Cows in the dairy losing