Miner's Prayer Is Dedicated to the Memory of Luther Tibbs. A Kentucky Coal Miner For 40 Years, and My Grandpa. When the Whistle Blows Each Morning And I Walk Down in That Cold, Dark Mine I Say a Prayer to My Dear Savior Please Let Me See the Sunshine One More Time Chorus: When Oh When Will It Be Over When Will I Lay These Burdens Down And When I Die, Dear Lord in Heaven Please Take My Soul From 'neath That Cold Dark Ground I Still Grieve For My Poor Brother And I Still Hear My Dear Old Mother Cry When Late That Night They Came and Told Her He'd Lost His Life Down in the Big Shoal Mine Chorus: When Oh When Will It Be Over When Will I Lay These Burdens Down And When I Die, Dear Lord in Heaven Please Take My Soul From 'neath That Cold Dark Ground I Have no Shame, I Feel no Sorrow If On This Earth Not Much I Own I Have the Love of My Sweet Children An Old Plow Mule, a Shovel and a Hoe Chorus: When Oh When Will It Be Over When Will I Lay These Burdens Down And When I Die, Dear Lord in Heaven Please Take My Soul From 'neath That Cold Dark Ground Yeah, When I Die, Dear Lord in Heaven Please Take My Soul From 'neath That Cold Dark Ground