In the land of coal, the story's told, of mining men, so brave and bold,
who spent their days beneath the ground outside a small West Virginia town..
As the locals say, one fateful day, as the miners started to earn their pay -
the walls of the coal collapsed on the men. Nine were found to be trapped within..
News of the nine trapped in the mine, reached the town in a moment of time.
Everyone left their daily routine to rescue the men from the fearful scene..
With hearts so loyal, with sweat and toil, eight were freed from the blackened soil.
Still one miner remained within, but no one there could rescue him..
When an expert team arrived at the scene, they realized the need for a drilling machine,
a special device to pierce the ground, but such a device could not be found..
The media heard what had occurred, the word went out and the nation was stirred.
Everyone listened throughout the land, watching them try to save the man..
Deep in the nest of the rugged west, a company heard of the miner's distress.
They'd made a machine for just such work, one that would bore through rock or dirt..
They sent it by flight to arrive overnight, along with a crew to the mining site..
Though the cost was truly immense, the company did it at their expense..
With speed and skill, they began to drill, they rescued the man trapped in the hill..
As he emerged to the morning air, he noticed the people standing there..
He saw his mother, his father and brothers, the camera-men and hundreds of others.
He saw the machine that rescued him, over the mine where he just had been..
He didn't know why, but he started to cry, as he looked at the people standing by..
They heard him say 'How can this be?' 'Why was all this done for me?'
All that was done, to simply save the one, might be a work of fiction neatly spun..
But one thing I know & this is very true - like the miner, you're worth saving too!
