A Canary's Song

While the Mockingbird warbles Near the mountain spring Down in a mine A canary sings In a deep dark hole Where men didn't belong They listened to their lives In a canary's song I remember mountain mornings So quiet I could almost hear The wind in the red-tails feathers And the breathin of the deer Those old tracks seemed to go forever And as a child I'd walk all day Findin diamonds in the cinders Pickin chunks of coal away As mornin faded to evenin Then so too came my time To follow down in my daddy's footsteps And leave the mountain for the mine Always bring a bright canary Our link to the world of air For we knew while she kept singin We wouldn't suffocate down there While the Mockingbird warbles Near the mountain spring Down in a mine A canary sings In a deep dark hole Where men didn't belong We listened to our lives In a canary's song And we'd listen For the sunrise For wings Against the sky And we'd listen For the dreams That'd make men try Once again I left the mountain To find work when the mine shut down Those old tracks don't go forever They end in this old part of town All I brought was this canary And as I wake from dreams of home I pray I'll hear her singin And fear a silence cold as stone While the Mockingbird warbles Near the mountain spring In a cold water room A canary sings Livin in this hole Where I don't belong I listen to my life In a canary's song While the Mockingbird warbles Near the mountain spring In a cold water room A canary sings Livin in this hole Where I don't belong I listen to my life In a canary's song A canary's song