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No More Deaths for Dollars

Ed Pickford
Language: English


Ed Pickford


Mother Jones – her spirit roams
Wherever mining kills
Colorado, Cripple Creek,
West Virginia Hills
Dressed in black she walks the path
Where grapes of wrath have grown
Born & bred in County Cork
Yet every-where’s her home

No more deaths for dollars
Price too high for coal
Mother Jones still hollers
Way down in the hole

Mother Jones where do you go?
Well I go where I choose.
Mother Jones where do you live?
I live in my shoes.
Raised some hell where my feet fell
Faced thugs and iron rain
Mother Sorrow took my kids
The miners eased my pain.

No more deaths for dollars
Price too high for coal
Mother Jones still hollers
Way down in the hole.

Mother Jones who are these kids
who march along with you?
These are children Roosevelt
keeps caged in a zoo.
Silk mill slaves whose early graves
Get closer every day
They give their tomorrow now
for what you have today.

No more deaths for dollars
Price too high for coal
Mother Jones still hollers
Way down in the hole.

Miners’ angel Mother Jones
No angel of the skies
She stood on a mountaintop
Helped them organise
When the strike was on she’d lead
The women and she’d say,
“Beat the tin cans louder girls
Those mules won’t scab today!”

No more deaths for dollars
Price too high for coal
Mother Jones still hollers
Way down in the hole.

Mother Jones – her spirit roams
Like Johnny Appleseed
She takes root and she bears fruit
Where there is a need
Knights of Labor - days of hope
Never tires of giving
Prays for dead cut down by lead
And fights like hell for living

No more deaths for dollars
Price too high for coal
Mother Jones still hollers
Way down in the hole.

Figures lie and liars figure
The maker rarely owns
We need light and we need fight
And we need Mother Jones.



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