Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA

You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind



She loves a young man and he lives in the town

And he leaves the house early for he works underground

He makes a good wage for a coal miner's son

And she's a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one



Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA

You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind



She knows her good mother's not feelin' no pain

She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain

She paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed way

Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray



Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA

You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind