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Posted: 12/17/2025
Genre: Traditional Bluegrass / Primarily Male Vocal.

I wanted to write a new Bluegrass song, and decided to make it about an old time Blue Diamond mine worker's life.
I've written about Lynch Kentucky Coal before, and you can't write about coal mining in Eastern Kentucky without mentioning the Blue Diamond mine company.
Please follow along with the lyrics:


DOWN THAT BLUE DIAMOND MINE

Got a pickaxe on my shoulder
And a lamp upon my head
If I wasn't a coal miner
What would I be instead
Someone with a shadow
From the Sun's blinding glow
I wouldn't be digging
In this Blue Diamond hole

Hear the Opry on the weekend
If my battery is strong
Through the static I will listen
To an old country song
Go to church Sunday morning
Then to sleep when it's night
So I can start all over
'fore the coming of the light

CHORUS
Going deeper each day
Down that Blue Diamond mine
Gotta get a load of coal
And a token for my time

Gave the tokens to my woman
To spend at the company store
Gotta buy the kids some new shoes
'cause they don't fit no more
Seems the cost is higher
Than the money that I make
But there's always credit
That they will always take

CHORUS
Going deeper each day
Down that Blue Diamond mine
Gotta get a load of coal
And a token for my time

CHORUS
Going deeper each day
Down that Blue Diamond mine
Gotta get a load of coal
And a token for my time


WORDS & MUSIC 12/17/2025 by: JOHNATHAN HART
COPYRIGHT 2025 JOHNATHAN HART (ASCAP)