Tommyknockers

Tommyknockers (3:11)
Jim Pipkin BMI

There's a tale that the miners tell their children
When they're out of the tunnels and the sun shines bright
Tell it and they laugh and they cross their fingers
Say a little prayer they come home that night

It's a legend that was old in the mines of Rome
How a man will turn when he dies in the hole
How his ghost will claw through the walls of the mine
Diggin' through the rock to find another soul

Miners who were drowned in boiling water
Miners who were crushed by a curtain wall
Smothered by gas or trapped by timbers
Tommyknockers tappin' in the tunnel walls

Sounds that you hear when you're diggin' in the dark
Hiss of the lanterns and the foreman's call
Sound that'll raise the hair on your neck
Tommyknockers tappin' in the tunnel walls

When you die in the rock does your soul go to heaven
Or do you just hang aroundin the belly of the mine
Waitin' for the chance to make a little company
Waitin' for the chance to help the next man die

Miners who were drowned in boiling water
Miners who were crushed by a curtain wall
Smothered by gas or trapped by timbers
Tommyknockers tappin' in the tunnel walls

There's a tale that the miners tell their children
When they're out of the tunnels and the sun shines bright
Tell it and they laugh and they cross their fingers
Say a little prayer they come home that night

Miners who were drowned in boiling water
Miners who were crushed by a curtain wall
Smothered by gas or trapped by timbers
Tommyknockers tappin' in the tunnel walls