George Jones "Open Pit Mine"
George did this great song back in 1962, when it peaked at #13 on the country charts. A forgotten classic.
George did this great song back in 1962, when it peaked at #13 on the country charts. A forgotten classic.
Love ya George!!! you are irreplaceable.
A great country classig that it is hardly listen nowadays. Awesome!
I actually work in Morenci, to hear such a classic from such a legend is awesome. I wonder where he buried Rosie…lol
one of my favorites from George Jones
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Smiley Bates does a good version of this it’s also on youtube if any one wants a listen 🙂
Awwww this song.. 🙁
I live in Morenci and work in the open pit mine!
My mother loves this song. She’s a george jones fan n her name is Rosie. 🌹💕🙏😊
Oh he hit the nail on the head with that one. Shift change! 😂😂
I taught in Clifton for one school year and then went back to Morenci to volunteer with the Morenci Lions Club. I met my ex-fiance in Clifton while she was a student at EAC. I miss Clifton and Morenci. I think there is an age that you reach, when you stop needing or wanting everything under the sun, when you stop chasing the stars and just want to look at them.
And now I work in that open pit mine, 5th generation
I surely remember this one ,back in the 50s ,George ..
I love this song
Lots of good memories to his songs.
a very good song
Great story song jones did outstanding job on it.
Classic. From the Beaumont Boy
My father actually wrote the lyrics to this song. He said he heard George’s voice in his head while composing it, and was lucky enough to have him record it. Thanks for liking it enough to upload it.
Where from Safford Arizona and this is one heck of a song open pit mine we’re about 40 minutes away from wrenc Arizona and Clifton Arizona its one hell of a song rest in peace to the legend god bless his family
this song is so true as men we sacrifice a toil for women who could care less. ive seen so many men get screwed over by women men who worked 12 or more hours a day only to get bitched at by a woman who did next to nothing cheat on him take the kids and rob him blind till the day he dies
this was my uncle louie"s favourite song he recently passed and this is what gets me through all the pain
Good god, I’ve cried myself to sleep with this several times. It just doesn’t get more acute than this. We all die alone.
THANK YOU FOR your BEAUTIFUL SONGS! I loved GEORGE!!!
This song describes Morenci to the fullest. You will go on your shift and the mess around will walk in after his shift is over while you are at work
the end verse is quite heartbreaking, all or nothing for the woman you love !!
great song
Love everything this man ever sang. Just a amazing singer.
I grew up in that open pit mine in Morenci…..
Not forgotten – just not regularly played in my home. I believe this recording does the very best job of displaying the power of George’s phrasing and vocal ability. I heard this song first when I was in Vietnam and it just grabbed and shook me. I love it just as much today.
Worked there, Transferred back to green valley ….
Lots of good memories to his songs.
I work in the Morenci Mine. The rule is "you don’t lose your girlfriend, you lose your turn." This song fits that narrative well…
Born in Morenci in1949
Born in Morenci, AZ…my dad ran the railroad inside the mine during WWII. Great part of American life now all but gone.
I love the mellow pickin
That song was playing when I was born in Morenci Arizona and we all knew rosey down in cliffton Arizona rosey use to hold me when I was born too
GEORGE JONES WAS A GREAT ARTIST! GEORGE STRAIT IS THE KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC!
♫ From Morenci, Arizona where the copper mines glow
I could see Clifton in the canyon below
In Clifton lived Rosey, we danced and we dined
On the money I made in the open pit mine ♫ Reminds me of my dear Grand Mother Evelyn Skookum – Feb 7, 2015 <3
True country
I met the writer of this song D.T.Gentry in Marion Indiana in 1975.
my name is Uriah Pasley born and raised in safford my papa worked in tbe mine and his daddy before him and so did i to provide for my family. what i should have done was bury my wife in that open pit mine. 😂
Heard this song ever night as the station went off the air in clifton arizona
damn, damn, damn that is deep and perfect
Good ole days….memories never fade….keep up the good work George
just played this for a couple truck driver who were fascinated by the history of Morenci. I told them about George Jones singing a song about Morenci & Clifton. They got all excited about it saying they listen to George all the time but didn’t remember ever hearing this song. So naturally I played it for them. Now they want to find the album lol.
I was born and raised in Morenci. Go Wildcats!!!
my husband worked in the coal mines,so many lost doing their job,thank you god for tim retiring,wifey
My grampa worked at this mine in Morenci Arizona in the 50’s to the late 6o’s
My granny loved this song rip love you 🙏