(Billy Edd Wheeler)
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Travelin' down that coal town road. Listenin' to my rubber tires whine.
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Goodbye to Buckeye and white Sycamore. I'm leavin' you behind.
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I've been coal miner all of my life. Layin' down track in the hole.
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Gotta back like an ironwood, bit by the wind. Blood veins blue as the coal. Blood veins blue as the coal.
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Somebody said, "That's a strange tattoo you have on the side of your head."
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I said, "That's the blueprint left by the coal. A little more and I'd been dead.
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Well, I love the rumble and I love the dark. I love the cool of the slade,
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And it's on down the new road, lookin' for a job. This travelin' nook in my head.
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I stood for the union and walked in the line and fought against the company.
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I stood for the U. M. W. of A. Now, who's gonna stand for me?
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I've got no house and I got no job, just got a worried soul
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And a blue tattoo on the side of my head left by the number nine coal. Left by the number nine coal.
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Some day when I'm dead and gone to heaven, the land of my dreams.
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I won't have to worry on losin' my job, on bad times and big machines.
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I ain't gonna pay my money away on dues or hospital plans.
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I'm gonna pick coal where the blue heavens roll and sing with the angel band.
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Coal Tattoo
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The Kingston Trio |