Loading 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 living 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 fellar

I'm told that scoops up a living 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 were 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

Loadin' coal loadin' coal