The Explosion at Four Mile, Ky.

December 26, 1945

That Snuffed Out The Lives of 24 Miners

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Come all you noble miners and listed to my song,

I’ll tell you of a circumstance that has not happened long.

It was in Four Mile Hollow, in nineteen and forty-five,

That this disaster happened and took these poor miners lives.

CHORUS

Shut up in the mines at Four Mile, away from home and friends,

They’re waiting for the time to come, when they can enter in,

To rescue these poor miners that lost their precious lives,

That left their little children and their weeping wives.

Verse 2

Some of them were rescued as God would have it be,

To see their wives and children, while others cannot see,

But if we’re true to Jesus, this one thing we know,

We’ll go to live with loved ones, where parting comes no more.

Verse 3

They leave their wives and children to mourn their last estate.

While toiling under the mountain, to meet this awful fate.

They were trying to earn a living, as all coal miners do.

So watch and pray, my brother, this might happen to you, too.

Verse 4

And when this journey’s ended and time shall be nor more,

We’ll go and live with loved ones, and rest forever more.

There will be a grand reunion upon the golden shore,

Where we can meet these miners, and live forever more.

Composed and sung by

NED THACKER

Middlesboro, Ky., 1946

Give what you will as part of the proceeds go to the families of these men.
May God bless the offering.