Come All You Hardy Miners
Source: Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People, Pp. 178–179.
Verse 1
Come All You Hardy Miners And Help Us Sing This Song,
Sung By Some Union Men, Four Hundred Thousand Strong,
With John White Our General We'll Fight Without A Gun,
He'll Lead Us On To Victory And Sixty Cents A Ton.
Verse 2
Come All You Hardy Miners And Help Us Sing This Song,
On The Twenty First Day Of April We Struck For Sixty Cents A Ton.
The Operators Laughed At Us And Said We'd Never Come
Out In One Body And Demand That Sixty Cents A Ton.
Verse 3
Come Out, You Scabs And Blacklegs And Join The Men Like One,
Tell Them That You're In The Fight For The Sixty Cents A Ton,
There Now In Old Virginia They're Scabbing Right Along,
But When We Win They're Sure To Try For The Sixty Cents A Ton.
Verse 4
Come All You Hardy Miners, Let's Try To Do Our Best,
We'll First Get Old Virginia, Kentucky, And Then We'll Get The Rest,
There's Going To Be A Meeting, Right Up In This Land,
When We Reach Across The River And Take Them By The Hand.
