minus-squarefirst_must_burn@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surgelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoKathy Mattea, Black Lung Saw this performed live at a festival in west virginia once. You could have heard a win drop in that room. “His soul full of coal dust 'til his body’s decayed, and everyone but black lung has turned him way.” Hazel Dickens wrote this song about her brother in 1970. Her original performance linkfedilink
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Kathy Mattea, Black Lung
Saw this performed live at a festival in west virginia once. You could have heard a win drop in that room.
Hazel Dickens wrote this song about her brother in 1970. Her original performance