The Miner's Bride

A cold wind blows through my windowpane As we ride through the dusty plain Snow will fall on the mountainside When I become a miner’s bride My true love lies in a soldier’s grave And with him died the love he gave The only thing that I can claim A child with his eyes but not his name Oh my love, don’t think too hard of me I could not bide in Tennessee Now I ride along this railroad track And I know I’m never comin’ back My mama gave away my hand And sent us to a stranger’s land He says we’ll live by the riverside When I become a miner’s bride I feel the winter comin’ on In those mountains far beyond Before they claim us as their own I fear the snow will have my bones Oh my son, don’t think too hard of me I could not bide in Tennessee Now I ride along this railroad track And I know I’m never comin’ back