Miner's Reward (Live)

from Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop by Jeni & Billy

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This song honors Jeni's great-grandfather, Avery Smith, who mined coal for the Jewell Ridge Coal Company in Southwest Virginia for 43 years.

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I ain’t seen the sun
in many long days.
Get up in the dark
and go home that-a-way.

‘Cept Sunday, Thank God,
when my work is all done.
I wake in the morn
to the light of the sun.

My God, He is mighty,
as Exodus says.
My God, He is humble,
for me He chose death.

Though death will not spare me,
I’ll fear not the grave.
No mines up in Heaven,
just sunshine in spades.

No, I ain’t seen the sun
in many long days,
but I’ll see my reward
in Heaven some day.

Yes, I’ll see my reward
in Heaven some day.

© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, 2007

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from Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop, track released May 1, 2015
© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, 2007

Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, vocals

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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