Coal Black Miner Blues---(ORIGINAL SONG) of/by NIMROD WORKMAN -L@@K!!

This song was Written and Sung by my Wife Sharon's late Grandfather= Nimrod Workman- A very Well Known Appalachain Folk SInger/Songwriter. I put the stuff together to make this video, and also added some pictures pertaining to the Matewan Massacre (Battle Of Matewan) UMWA miners-and Baldwin Felts Agents during the time of the UMWA Strikes of the early 1920s

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Music

Tags:

• Country
• FOLK
• UMWA
• Matewan Massacre
• Battle Of Blair Mountain
• Black Lung
• Original Songs

[ssquickmeal]

my roots are deep in Weet Va my Grandfather left W and Lee after his first year to fill his fathers shoes and worked as a saftey engineer my father grew up in many camps.Chatteroy was one.there arent many who have a clue what powers this world.i feel that we do.im told that my Great great grandfather and brother emigrated from Scotland and started the first mine in Shamokin Pa

[TheMattBrewster]

My dad is a coalminer and he wrote the song "Do it all again" on my page... Come check it out and let me know what ya think...

[heehawluck1]

I was born in a mining village in 1953, in South West Scotland. By many of the comments I have been reading it must have been pretty much the same the whole world over.... hard men, working in a hard enviornment in hard times. But these were communities.... real breathing and functioning communities where women were multitasking long before the notion was thought of.  They were wives, mothers, nurses, midwives.... you name it they surely did it. Yes, they were hard times .. but good ones.

[madasoup]

Great vid! My grandfather grew up just outside of Matewan. My childhood memories are filled with songs and stories he would tell of his home. This was nice to hear!

[meeranaam]

CountryBoy,

Thanks for this video! As the grandaughter of a coal miner here in WV, I grew up hearing the songs and stories of mining days. I wish more of these songs were archived for future generations, and I 'm glad to have discovered this. Paw Paw told me stories about Winding Gulf, Red Jacket, and Matoaka mines...how they survived so long was a miracle.

[tuberificvideo]

i like it! you ever try one of those online video contests like yobi sing or that other one? cant remember what it was called.

[blu65gibson]

loved this,my grandfather was a miner for blue-diamond coal in harlan,ky.he also fought in the miner wars.....faved....blu65.

[DixieRose1952]

Super 5 stars