Exit 3B to the Black Mining Hills

[Verse ] Black mining hills around you everywhere you go The sun shines down to barely reach the valley below It’s in the air we breathe, it stains up all our clothes Our blood runs black with it, our bones are made of coal [Verse - band comes in] Her diamond eyes would shine when he would come to town Her love lit his lamp while he worked underground Her daddy told him she was meant for a better life He’d do all he could to keep her from his side [Chorus] Only two tracks left to be found in the cold Their two paths unwittingly sold To the black mining hills His ghost is with her still And it follows along as she wanders on alone [Verse] She tried to shake him loose to spare him from demise She said she couldn’t bear to see his pining eyes But still his heart beat like an old black tambourine He said one day, my love, i’ll bring you home to me They met out in the woods, late one summer night They swore their love eternal there in the firelight Her daddy’s men came down and so he had to flee She said, “You have to hide, let’s meet by the willow tree” [Chorus] Only two tracks left to be found in the cold Their two paths unwittingly sold To the black mining hills His ghost is with her still And it follows along as she wanders on alone [Verse] The sky was black that night, the moon covered in soot He ran and ran, 'til there was nothing underfoot The wind, she picked him up and dropped him out at sea Buried his coal-black heart under the willow tree [Chorus]