Stompin' Tom Connors - Muckin' Slushers lyrics

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Come on you muckin' slushers

You jack leg drillers and blasters

The price of Uranium is up and there's money to make

Come on ya big rock bolters

Who answer to the name of miner

This old boom town is still around

On the shores of Elliot Lake

Time cards in and out, up and down cages

Gonna make Heaven out of Hell-earned wages

Come on Quirke pay me now

I got eighteen holes I'm goin' pow, pow, pow

And there ain't no music finer

She's a damn good song for a miner, a damn good song for a miner

When it's daylight on the town site and midnight a way down under

I can hear the shift boss say shes a muckin' out well

With hard hats, boots and oilers

Were off to scale the stope boys

Goodbye town we're a goin' down

To the belly of a man made hell

Time cards in and out, up and down cages

Gonna make Heaven out of Hell-earned wages

Come on Quirke pay me now

I got eighteen holes I'm goin' pow, pow, pow

And there ain't no music finer

She's a damn good song for a miner, a damn good song for a miner

In the afternoon we'll cage up to the surface and home to supper

But we'll all meet at the Algoden later tonight

Where the wine and the beer and the singin'

Kinda gets a good miner swingin'

And we'll dance around this whole damn town till the sun comes shinin' bright

Time cards in and out, up and down cages

Gonna make Heaven out of Hell-earned wages

Come on Quirke pay me now

I got eighteen holes I'm goin' pow, pow, pow

And there ain't no music finer

She's a damn good song for a miner, a damn good song for a miner

Come on you muckin' slushers

You jack leg drillers and blasters

The price of Uranium is up and there's money to make

Come on you big rock bolters

Who answer to the name of miner

This old boom town it still around on the shores of Elliot Lake

Time cards in and out, up and down cages

Gonna make Heaven out of Hell-earned wages

Come on Quirke pay me now

I got eighteen holes I'm goin' pow, pow, pow

And there ain't no music finer

She's a damn good song for a miner, a damn good song for a miner

One hell of a song for a miner!

Thanks to Lincoln Keays for these lyrics

Thanks to Gloria from Elliot Lake, know the song-writer for correcting these lyrics