[Verse 1]
April fifth
Two thousand ten
Morning fog on the mountain
Men went down
They never came back again
Twenty‑nine tags
Still checked in
Twenty- nine tags
Never to be checked out
[Chorus]
Say their names
Not your alibis
Twenty‑nine empty chairs at their table
You can spin your stories
Twist your lines
But you can’t bring back
Those twenty‑nine
[Verse 2]
Paper plans
Drawn up by the man
“Something’s wrong”
About What we’d seen
We said
Don’t cut the air
Or the Pressure
Hidden risk
We said
the air is not enough
[Chorus]
Say their names
Not your alibis
Twenty‑nine empty chairs at their table
You can spin your stories
Twist your lines
But you can’t bring back
Those twenty‑nine
[verse 3]
They hauled off the boss in an iron suit
Called it justice
Called it truth
Witch hunt
Scapegoat
Shouting in the news
But the tags still hang on that on that old board
Families left
With a flag and a stone
Questions echo through the holler
About who cause the explosion that killed our men below
[Chorus]
Say their names
Not your alibis
Twenty‑nine empty chairs at their table
You can spin your stories
Twist your lines
But you can’t bring back
Those twenty‑nine
[verse 4]
The news said it was the company
That caused the explosion
But we know the truth
It was the plan drawn up by the man
that killed our twenty-nine
[Chorus]
Say their names
Not your alibis
Twenty‑nine empty chairs at their table
You can spin your stories
Twist your lines
But you can’t bring back
Those twenty‑nine