Nothing they could do just sit down there
As the black closed all around them
And the water rose so quick and cold
An unlikely place to drown.
Chorus:
Nine in the mine, trapped down below
Down! Down! Down in the ground
And this would be the day I didn`t kiss my wife goodbye
Take care of my family, I`m buried alive
They held their heads up high
As they struggled hard to breathe
And asked the Lord to open his arms
For the nine souls he`d receive
They lashed themselves together
So in death all might be found
And prayed there for miracle
Some twenty-four storeys down