Miners’ poor pocketbooks are growing lean
Miners’ poor pocketbooks are growing lean
They can’t make a dollar at all
Here is where we place the fault
Place it all on that coal loading machine

Tell me what will a coal miner do
Tell me what will a coal miner do
When he go down in the mine
Joy loaders he will find
Tell me what will a coal miner do

Now boys, I think I have a scheme
And I’m sure that it’s neither rude nor mean
We will pick our bone and refuse
Then we’ll know our coal is clean
Then we’ll outdo that coal loading machine

Tell me what will a coal miner do
Tell me what will a coal miner do
When he go down in the mine
Joy loaders he will find
Tell me what will a coal miner do
Tell me what will a coal miner do