"Like My Daddy Did" by Jon Harvey

This is a song I wrote to showcase and celebrate the lives of coal miners everywhere. Although this song was written for coal miners both past and present, it is especially dedicated to the life and memory Eric Legg.

[@amandaadkins8991]

I did it for 35 years I miss it so much.

[@mountainman9664]

This song is awesome thanks bubba! I’m a third generation miner everyone before me were coal miners. The mine up here in east central Ohio shut down before I was old enough to go under. I’m a mechanic in an underground limestone mine now. God bless yall

[@jamisonoviatt1491]

Dude this song is golden I'm a fifth generation coal miner and proud to wear those stripes would you by chance be will to give the sheet music for this song?

[@Grumpy777]

Love This Song ............ Totally Awesome ...... although I'mma Over the Road Trucker..Born and Raised in Southern Ohio, Straight across the river from Ashland Kentucky...We ran coal trucks back in the 70s and early 80s ,, Packed up in 1983' and moved to Southeast Corner of Tennessee near the Georgia and North Carolina Lines... Peace ✌️ Love ❤️💜 and 18 Wheelz to Ya Hero and to everyone else out there in KZbin Land Deuces ✌️ my Friends Deuces ✌️

[@tammybyus]

Wow I’m definitely late to the party as this song is now 6 years old. Nonetheless-I love it. VHS CLASS OF 82. Love the song!!! Call me crazy (People do 😂) your voice has the rasp sound of Bonjovi. 🥰

[@rustednbustedmopars6087]

This is a amazing song well done! I’ve been a miner for years now and currently up in Coaldale pa at Lehigh anthracite.

[@kernietomblin1949]

Always say i love to to your coal miners. They use it as courage against the dark mine. That is what my daddy always told me.

[@watup110875]

Awesome job from WV, lots of family memories :')

[@larrysullivan3101]

Thank you all for serving the minds we would not have light

[@Tony-dk9sx]

Very nicely done ! Your dad would be very proud !

[@matthewbeckner7517]

Im a (COAL MINER)....LOVE THE SONG ...(GOD BLESS)...... THANK YOU!!!!

[@oldjake912]

are you still working underground i worked underground in eastern Kentucky I'm retired now but i still miss it ...

[@rward2109]

@@oldjake912 No, he lives in NC now and is doing well.

[@janicechandler1950]

Daddy worked in the Cloverfork mine in Harlan county from 1932 until it closed in 1958.

[@jasonperry7345]

Love it great job!

[@robertyoung7823]

God bless all the hard working men and women in these United States.

[@larrysullivan3101]

My dad was in the minds when his dad was

[@bettyosborne9181]

Very good song both my son's are in the coal mines

[@thinkingislegal192]

Pure gold ,!, pure COAL ! 🙏🏼🇺🇲✌🏽💪🏽

[@Kc8qdq]

Spent 15 years mining coal. I did not quit the mine the mine quit me. Hay American after you shut down all the coal fired power stations and we run out of natural gas just sit in the dark.

[@yellowbasementrecords651]

Where you from brother?

[@scottknickman8330]

I mine coal for 29 years in pa

[@rustednbustedmopars6087]

Where at in pa do you work? I’m up in Coaldale pa at Lehigh working in that mine for a few years now

[@anniekilinsk6603]

Lv all boys miss him gravely xxx big up kut d fans n everything xxx best ppl u ever meet my lost soul gonna a gd place! Big up invasion

[@EllenHughes-x4r]

I miss u daddy Franklin Dee wild man hughes coal miner district 29 local 6026 love u daddy miss u

[@pamelapowers5416]

My pawpaw and his son followed his daddy working in mines. That's all there is coal. All they knew. I lost em both to coal.

[@lettyeversole3332]

Great song. So many memories. Loved the pics on Pond Fork Road so g, but music was too loud. Couldn't understand the lyrics or hear your great voice.

[@EllenHughes-x4r]

I no so

[@zachfrere7246]

My grandfather built continuous miners dad drove coal bucket in the strip mines and I rebuild and repair longwall equipment above and underground this song really hits home thank you

[@anitahyatt6877]

A rare breed of men that have all my respect and prayers

[@scottbaker4314]

2nd generation coal miner here in Eastern Ky but it's not from following my dad he left mom when me and my brother was under the age of 8 so I followed my grandpa into the mines and my brother is a Union boilermaker.

[@travisdunn7230]

Great song don't really know who you are but it's great and that's my dad at 2:59

[@tiffanyprice8496]

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[@tiffanyprice8496]

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[@westvirginiahellbilly8124]

Nope , son that’s your step father , he is a good man in my opinion . However I’m your Daddy , and I’m also a coal miner , in fact a boss who has been doing this all my life aside from serving in the Navy !! I will always love you son , you have 3/4’s of my heart , but nonetheless I’ll always be Dad !! I love you son and cannot wait till you come home from Korea , you have made me a VERY PROUD dad ! And , I’m sure you always will no matter where or what , I love ya son and can’t wait till you get home !! Love , your Daddy !!

[@gunterbartsch9284]

All the best from an EX Coal Miner from Germany.

[@theresadupuis8475]

My Daddy and Uncles Worked In Coal. Mines in New Brunswick Canada 💓

[@MichaelNoble-x9o]

Locust Grove Inc..like my daddy did.

[@billybrown6064]

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[@kurtblank6488]

Whoa I Like this. Thank you for all your hard work in Mines. God Bless you all and stay Safe. Kurt from Idaho

[@wesleyperrine127]

Awesome song, dad choked up when I played this song to him. Still mining that Wv coal today

[@RebeccaMiller-v4z]

I had a grandpa who came over from Scotland he was a coal miner also he passed away in 1966 I'm the grand daughter of one

[@erickarch169]

God bless all the coal miners! Better days are ahead. Thank you all!!

[@lancehurst8473]

Thank you