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His dad was a miner and his granddad was tooThere was never much question about what he might doBy the age of thirteen he had laid down his penAnd become a coal-miner and a prince among men.My goal as a young lad from a bright early ageWas to follow my hero down in that cageFairy lights and Pit Ponies were the stuff of my dreamsNever thinking how hard my dad worked at the seamchorus:Only a miner killed under the groundOnly a miner and one more is foundKilled by accident no one can tellYour mining's all over, poor miner, farewell.Dad worked like a Trojan his money to saveI'm afraid that he worked himself into his graveAnd my schooling was paid at the cost of his lungsDad was an old man at the age of forty-one.I never will forget how his face lit with prideWhen I got my diploma, he was there by my sideAnd I try to remember him as he was thenA rare moment of joy for a prince among men.Letras de cancionesA gold watch and chain inscribed James DoyleNever seemed much reward for a life of such toilBut I keep his lamp burning and his old union cardAnd his bones rest here in this sunlit graveyard.My dad was a miner and a prince among menWell loved by his wife and his family and friendsAnd his hardship and toil gave me the one chance I hadAnd generations of slavery died with my dad. From Letras Mania