Top 10 Coal Mining Disaster songs

Here's my list:
1. Montclair, West Virginia- Alan "Cathead" Johnson
2. Big Bad John- Jimmy Dean
3. The Auchengeich Disaster- Norman Buchan
4. New York Mining Disaster 1941- Bee Gees
5. Mannington Mine Disaster- Hazel Dickens
6. The Browder Explosion- Merle Travis
7. The Dying Miner- Woody Guthrie
8. The Hyden Disaster- Shelva Thompson
9. The Gresford Disaster- Traditional
10. Down In The Mines- Dierks Bentley

 

Well that covers it.

 

Yup. We're done here.

 

Miner's Prayer - Dwight Yoakam


now, we're done...

 

Impressive. Okay, your next challenge… top ten diamond mining disaster songs, or gold mining or opal mining, we're easy.

 

What!?
No “Blood on the Coal” by the Folksmen???

 

Doc Watson “Dream of the Miner’s Child”

 

In the terms of a personal life disaster...

 

I actually have a lot of them. Here is the named one by my late friend Hazel Dickens

 

One of my favorites by another friend, Kenny Winfree

 

Bells of St Rhymney" by Seeger, Byrds etc

 

Sting, surely the expert on such a topic

 

Dark as A Dungeon

 

Harry Belafonte's version of that is magnificent as well.

 

Merle Travis original also
Johnny Cash did good version

 

Jeff Moore--Only a Miner

 

Dirty Business - John Dawson/New Riders Of The Purple Sage

 

The lyrics are ambiguous as to whether it's about a disaster, but at the very least the narrator has fallen on some very hard times...

 

Lee Dorsey or Devo- Working In The Coalmine



A disaster waiting to happen..."Oops...about to slip down!"