Three Miles Down letra

Here come the mine cars; it'sdamn near dawn.
Another shift of men, some of my friends, comin' on.
Hard to imagine workin' in the mines;
Coal dust in your lungs, on your skin and on your mind.
I've listened to the speeches,
but it occours to me politicians just don't understand;
the thoughts of isolation, ain't no sunshine underground.
It's like workin' in a graveyard three miles down.

Damn near a legend as old as the mines:
things that happen in the pits just don't change with the times.
Work 'till you're exhausted in too little spacwe.
a history of desastrous fears etched on your face.
Somebody signs a paper, ev'ry body thinks it's fine,
but Taft and Hartley ain't done one day in the mines.
You start to stiffen! You heard a crackin' sound!
It's like workin' in a graveyard three miles down.

Gil Scott-Heron - Letras

• 17th Street
• 1980
• A Prayer For Everybody / To Be Free
• A Sign of the Ages
• A Very Precious Time
• Ain't No Such Thing As Superman
• Angel Dust
• Angola, Louisiana
• B Movie
• Better Days Ahead
• Billy Green Is Dead
• Bottle
• Brother
• Combinations
• Delta Man (Where I'm Comin' From)
• Designer Love
• Did You Hear What They Said?
• Enough
• Grandma's Hands
• Gun
• H2O Gate Blues
• Hello Sunday! Hello Road!
• Home Is Where the Hatred Is
• I Think I'll Call It Morning
• I'll Take Care of U
• Is That Jazz?
• It's Your World
• Johannesburg
• Jose Campos Torres
• Lady Day and John Coltrane
• Liberation Song (Red, Black and Green)
• Lovely Day
• Madison Avenue
• Me And The Devil
• Message to the Messengers
• Morning Thoughts
• Must Be Something
• No Knock
• Offering
• Or Down You Fall
• Pieces of a Man
• Plastic Pattern People
• Racetrack in France
• Revolution (And Flashback)
• Save the Children
• Sex Education: Ghetto Style
• Song For Bobby Smith
• Storm Music
• The Bottle
• The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues
• The Klan
• The Needle's Eye
• The Prisoner
• The Revolution Will No Be Televised
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• The Vulture
• Three Miles Down
• Waiting For the Axe to Fall
• We Almost Lost Detroit
• We Beg Your Pardon (Pardon Our Analysis)
• When You Are Who You Are
• Where Did The Night Go
• Whitey On The Moon
• Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?
• Winter in America
• Work For Peace
• Your Daddy Loves You