My first reggae song...

Me mammy said son you got to get a job
Your poppy can't work hes got the black lung
Boy you head down to the mine and ask the boss man
Is there anywhere sir where I can lend a hand?

Oh, oh, oh, oh I said no
Please don't you make me go
I don't want to work no more
Mammy I don't mind bein' poor

But I head down to the mine, like a good son
Me poppy cant work, there's bread to be won
The boss man look at me and he start to laugh
But he say he need a wheelbarrow boy, deep down the mine shaft

Oh, oh, oh, oh I said no
Please don't you make me go
I don't want to work no more
Sir I don't mind bein' poor

Deep down in the mine its dark and its cold
Ya everybody coughing, their lungs full of coal
You hear the click-click-clacking of picks all around
Everybody goes crazy so deep underground

Oh, oh, oh, oh I said no
Please don't you make me go
I don't wan't to work no more
Sir I don't mind bein' poor

For twenty-six years I dug in the earth
We stripped that mine of coal for all it was worth
And when we were done they locked us inside
And I looked upon death with my own eyes

Oh, oh, oh, oh I said no
Please don't you make me go
I don't mind workin' more
Please sir open up the mine door