They'll Never See Their Pay Lyrics

Day by day and night by night
In the heat of the midday sun
In the midnight ringing frost
Downpour and snow
Gloomy miners
Who have walked on the rails for years and years
Wanting their money paid
Shutting off the traffic

Millions of trains have crowded around
Standing still and petrified
But the miners won’t leave
They are used to sitting
Finally the government
Says the miners must be paid

So a mail train rushes along
Cram full with sacks of cash

It breaks the speed of sound
Hurrying up to reach the place
They seem to win

Thousands of miles behind the train
So it remains the final stage,
They’re gonna win
But the switchman was too drunk
and forgot to switch the point

The train rushes along the crowd
Its hooter howls, cleaving the night,
but they can’t hear its approach

While the train's howling,
they are banging their helmets
So, they’ll never see their pay...