Rhymes of the Mines: Life in the UndergroundCowboy Miner Productions, 2006 - 143 pages A collection of poems by and about miners, with selections spanning from the 19th century to today. |
Contents
Heres To the Miners | 13 |
The Tunnel | 26 |
Sullys Bucket | 39 |
The Other Shift | 52 |
The Old Town of Ray | 67 |
Common terms and phrases
ain't Arizona Poet Bisbee boss boys brick burros cats Cerro Gordo coal copper cowboy Cowboy Poetry dark Davy Lamp dead Dean Cook desert dream drift drill drip Of water dust Ed Hunter elephant engineer EYEEEEE Haw Fire gaffer Ginny gold gonna Hard Rock hardrock miner head heard hell hill hole hundred Jim Riley Jimmy Jimmy Stevens Joe Corrie Keystone Hotel lamp Leadville looked Mason Coggin Mike miner mines of Avondale mining camp Mining Company Mining Poetry mountain mucking never old mining old P. D. old town payday pick piled poem Poet and Song prospector pull Robert Service sand seeping ground shaft shift Solidarity forever Song Writer sound stock certificate sure Sweetheart's A Mule tae keep tell there's timbers told Tommy Knockers Tony town of Ray trail tunnel turned underground Vignette wealth Yankee Boy Basin