Dryden Mine

From Nanticoke to Carbondale
 You cannot find a bigger name
 You can sell your share of daylight
 For a fair and steady wage
 Some our rough and some are reckless
 Some are rude and some are kind
 But not a man who stands among us
 Would leave another man in the mine
 And it's no sir, I don't mind working in the darkness
 The eyes of a blind man ain't looking for the light
 And it's no sir, I don't mind working in the darkness
 As long they will keep me on
 I'll work the Dryden Mine
 Well they call me young Blind Bennie
 And my brother, he is Tom
 I work the door to let the cars by
 I can hear them come along
 There's a doctor in the city
 Who could make my sight return
 So me and Tom are holding on
 To every penny that we earn
 And it's no sir, I don't mind working in the darkness
 The eyes of a blind man ain't looking for the light
 And it's no sir, I don't mind working in the darkness
 As long they will keep me on
 I'll work the Dryden Mine
 Well our father came before us
 From the country of our birth
 Come to find a life and prosper
 Trying to prove to God his worth
 And it's no sir, I don't mind working in the darkness
 The eyes of a blind man ain't looking for the light
 And it's no sir, I don't mind working in the darkness
 As long they will keep me on
 I'll work the Dryden Mine