Here in Harlan County, the choices are few 在这里，在哈兰县，选用的是少数

To keep food on the table and the babies in shoes 保持食物在桌子上，在鞋子的婴儿

You can grow marijuana way back in the pines 您可以在松树种植大麻归途

Or work for the man down in the mine 或者在工作的人倒在矿井

   

You never forget your first day in the hole 你永远不会忘记你的第一天，在孔

There's a pit in your stomach and your mouth's full of coal 有一个坑你的胃，你的嘴的全煤

There's no turning back once you make up your mind 一旦你让你的心有没有回头路可走

As the cart rattles on down in the mine 由于车摇铃上下来的地雷

   

Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud 在矿一路下跌，你的眼泪变成泥

And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs 而且你也不可以喘口气了灰尘你的肺

Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines 加载乡巴佬黄金，太阳永远照耀

Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave 每天12小时，陷你的坟墓

Way down in the mine 在矿一路下跌

   

Well the old timers talk but you just don't believe 以及老前辈说话，但你就是不相信

It can all go to hell at two thousand feet 它都可以去地狱的2000英尺

Life sways in the balance of nature and time 寿命摇摆性质和时间的平衡

And fate has no mercy down in the mine 命运没有怜悯的雷倒

   

The news spreads like fire and burned through those hills 消息传出像火，并通过这些山丘烧毁

Hopes were held high but five men got killed 希望举行高，但五人丧生

On the wings of canaries, your soul surely flies 在金丝雀的翅膀，你的灵魂一定会过得

While your bones spend eternity down in the mine 虽然你的骨头度过永恒倒在矿井

   

Way down in the mine, your tears turn to mud 在矿一路下跌，你的眼泪变成泥

And you can't catch your breath for the dust in your lungs 而且你也不可以喘口气了灰尘你的肺

Loading hillbilly gold where the sun never shines 加载乡巴佬黄金，太阳永远照耀

Twelve hours a day, diggin' your grave 每天12小时，陷你的坟墓

Way down in the mine 在矿一路下跌

   

So take a flask from your crib can can and a pull of moonshine 因此，需要从你的床可以可以烧瓶和月光的拉

And say a prayer for them boys down in the mine 并说，祈祷他们的男孩在雷倒