When you work in the mine you take your life in your hands
breaking the rock and work as fast as you can
It takes an eight hour shift to drill an eight foot round
workin like a slave a thousand feet underground
at two thousand feet with the Devil you bond
you gotta make the footage or the bonus is gone
You ain't nuthin but a miner till the day that you die
living like a Mole is your schooling in life
To pay your bills because the Wolf's at your door
the Finance Company's the world's biggest Whore
When pay-day comes you take the cage to daylight
and pick-up your dough to feed the kids and the wife
Well it's the Jackleg boogie (Jackleg boogie
Jackleg boogie (Jackleg boogie)
it's the Jackleg boogie at the Dome all shift long
First you muck out your round with your mucking machine
connect all the hoses for the air you'll need
You lay down your track and you start to drill
you slap down the lever then you shake and you reel
then you dance all around with your boots on your feet
you do the jackleg boogie and send the orr to the mill
Well it's the Jackleg boogie (Jackleg boogie)
Jackleg boogie (Jackleg boogie
Well it's the Jackleg boogie at the Dome mine all shift long
Words/Music
Paul Henry Dallaire
Paul Henry Pub.
SOCAN.CA
U.S. Rep: ASCAP
Production and Music By:
Germain Belmarre
Schumacher, Ontario.
Canada