chorus:   Oh we’re back in the valley   Oh we’re back in the valley   Oh we’re back in the valley   and it all comes round again      That coal dust clings to me wherever I make my way   and like the star of Bethlehem it leads me back today   fresh air might make me homesick for what I’ve left behind   but I got no time for dreaming if I did I’d lose my mind      (chorus)      Some seek shelter from the storm some laugh in the teeth of the gale   and some just work right through it everyday without fail   some just walk on the backs of men who’ve fallen down   it’s hard to trust the man who makes his living above the ground      (chorus)      Maybe down in the darkness   the good Lord just can’t see   so I just gotta tell him    that His coal is killing me      (chorus)