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Old Coal Miner Oh, who'll replace this old coal miner And who will take my place below And who will follow the trepanner Who, dear God, when I go And who will wield my heavy pick That I did wield for forty years And who will hew the black, black coal Who, dear God, when I go And who will ride the miners' train That takes him to the dark coal face Who'll take my place upon that train Who, dear God, when I go And who will fill the great iron tubs And who will strain his bending back And who will work, sweat, and ache like hell Who, dear God, when I go And who will cry when the roof caves in When friends are dying all around And who will sing the miners' hymn Who, dear God, when I go For forty years I've loved the mine For forty years I've worked down there Now who'll replace this old coal miner When I pay God my fare from a tape of Out of the Rain at Plowshares, 1983. Believe from the Elliot family of Birtley, England. [JN] JN oct96