Where Are The Wonthaggi Miners

Where are they now the miners of Wonthaggi
The mighty men who tunnelled deep for coal?
Some of them resting in their graves forever
And of the youngest of them time is taking toll.

Their children and grandchildren in Wonthaggi
And at Murray street each day at noon the siren blast
For to remind Wonthaggiites just for a moment
Of their strong links to a coal mining past.

They worked so hard for to support their families
And life hard for the miner and his wife
They migrated to get rich in Australia
Yet they never got to know of the good life.

They were the migrant fathers of Wonthaggi
And a better life for their children they planned
And they laboured hard in harsh and unsafe surroundings
And they worked so hard far south of their homeland.

The old coal mine is now a tourist attraction
A memory of the bleak times gone by
And a monument to the hard working miners
Where history is not allowed to die.

Where are they now the old miners of Wonthaggi?
Some in cemetery off of Cameron Street lay
They laboured hard in dangerous surroundings
Those fellows from the northlands far away.