The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore

When I was a curly headed baby

Daddy sat me down on his knee

He said, "Son, go to school and get your lessons

Don't you be a dusty coal miner, boy, like me"

I was born and raised at the mouth of hazard hollow

The coal cars rollin' and rumblin' past my door

Now they stand in a rusty row of empties

'Cause the L and N don't stop here anymore

Used to think my daddy was a black man

With script enough to buy the company store

Now he goes to town with empty pockets

And his face is white as a February snow

I was born and raised at the mouth of hazard hollow

The coal cars rollin' and rumblin' past my door

Now they stand in a rusty row of empties

'Cause the L and N don't stop here anymore

Never thought I'd learn to love the coal dust

Never thought I'd yearn to hear that whistle roar

Oh, how I wish the grass would turn to money

And those greenbacks would fill my pockets once more

I was born and raised at the mouth of hazard hollow

The coal cars rollin' and rumblin' past my door

Now they stand in a rusty row of empties

'Cause the L and N don't stop here anymore

Last night I dreamed I went down to the office

To get my pay like a had done before

But them ol' kudzu vines were coverin' the doorway

There was grass and leaves growin' right up through the floor

I was born and raised at the mouth of hazard hollow

The coal cars rollin' and rumblin' past my door

Now they stand in a rusty row of empties

'Cause the L and N don't stop here anymore