Coal Tattoo

Travelin' on down that coal town road

Listen to my rubber tires whine

Goodbye to buckeye and white sycamore

I'm leavin' you behind

Oh, I've been a coal miner all my life

Layin' down track in a hole

Got a back like ironwood, bent by the wind

Blood veins as blue as the coal

Blood veins as blue as the coal

Well, somebody said, “

That's a strange tattoo

You have on the side of your head”

I said, “That's a blue mark left by the coal

Little more and

I'd a been dead”

Oh, I love the rumble and

I love the dark

Lord, I love the cool of the slate

But it's going down that new road lookin' for a job

Travelin' and lookin’

I hateTravelin' and lookin’

I hateSome day when

I'm dead and gone

To heaven the land of my dreams

I won't have to worry ‘bout losin' my job

To bad times and big machines

Oh, I got no house

Lord, I got no job

Just got a worried soul

And a blue tattoo on the side of my head

Left by the number nine coal

Left by the number nine coal