Deserve a loud applause
Gone away for 15 hours
Shift work night or day.
The boys of Winnemucca
Have families great and small
Every day they miss them
And every night they call.
8 days on/ 2 days off
4 days on/ work non stop.
They work those shifts
With crews long bent
And come home beat as a dog.
Covered in ash
Covered in grease
5 o'clock shadow
Eyes drooping down for sleep.
The boys of Winnemucca
Deserve a lot of love
Gone away for 15 hours
Shift work night or day.
The boys of Winnemucca
Break their back
For the one's they love
And we should really call them Men.
For a miner's work is hard and harder
Down in shafts so dim.
(soon to come- girls of winnemucca lol )
Love this face. Very well written and a great tribute to the men of your town. :)
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