Down in the Hole - Shakin' Stevens

Way back when copper was king

Fortunes grew on the blood of my kin

Digging deep and sacrificed

They all paid a terrible price

In black holes they slaved away

Wearing crowns of candle and clay

Suffering fire, and flood and pain

All for the sake of another’s man gain

Living, and dying, barely surviving

Down in the ground in the poisoned air

Down where the mineral lords didn’t care

Down in the dark where they lost their soul

Down, down, down in the hole

Women and children barrowing ore

Slaving up on the dressing floor

Carrying the weight of a full grown man

All to fill that Captain’s plan

In the mines they sweated and bled

Barely earned their daily bread

Dying young they had no life

All they knew was hunger and strife

Living, and dying, barely surviving

Mines are closed, but you may see

They’ve still left their legacy

Hidden in the bracken round

Shafts await to take you down

Down in the ground in the poisoned air

Down where nobody knows you’re there

Down in the dark where you’ll lose your soul

Down, down, down in the hole

Down in the hole

Way on down

Down in the hole

Down in the hole