Loadin' coal
My pappy said when I was seventeen, you're six feet tall and your face is clean.
And it don't look right for a boy that old to not make a livin', loadin' coal.
Loadin' coal, loadin' coal, I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole.
Never get rich for to save my soul and forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal.
Ain't never got acquainted with a dollar bill, and I don't ever reckon that I ever will.
A dollar ain't made for a feller, I'm told, that scoops up a livin' loadin' coal.
Loadin' coal, loadin' coal.
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole.
Never get rich for to save my soul and forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal.
I cussed everything in the mining camp, from a shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp.
But I know mighty well till I grow old, I'll still be a cussin' but loadin' coal.
Loadin' coal, loadin' coal.
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole.
Never get rich for to save my soul and forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal.
I know just as well as coal is black, one of these days the mines will strike.
And I'll sit around starvin' till I'm finally told
There's a nickel more a ton for loadin' coal
Loadin' coal, loadin' coal.
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole.
Never get rich for to save my soul and forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal.