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Lyrics for Coal Tattoo by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Coal Tattoo | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 184 | | | | Lyrics: | COAL TATTOO
(Billy Ed Wheeler)
Travelin' down that coaltown road,
Listen to
those rubber tires whine;
Goodbye to Buckeye and White Sycamore,
I'm leavin' you
behind.
I've been a coal man all my life
Layin' down track in the hole,
Got a back like an ironwood bent by the wind
Blood veins blue as the
coal.
Somebody said "That's a strange tattoo
You have on the side of your
head."
I said "That's a blue print, left by the coal
Just a little more and I'd be
dead"
And I love the rumble and I love the dark
I love the cool of the
slate.
But it's on down the new road lookin' for a job
It's the travelin' and
lookin' I hate.
I've stood for the union, walkin' the line,
Fought against the
company;
Stood for the U. M. W. of A.
Now who's gonna stand for me?
I got no
house and I got no pay,
Just got a worried soul;
And this blue tattoo on the
side of my head
Left by the number nine coal.
Someday when I'm dead and
gone
To Heaven, the land of my dreams,
I won't have to worry on losin' my job
To bad
times 'n big machines.
I ain't gonna pay my money away
For pensions and hospital
plans.
I'm gonna pick coal where the blue heavens roll
And sing with the angel
bands.
Copyright Quartet Music, Inc. & Bexhill Music
Recorded by Kingston Trio, Jim
Croce, Collins
@mine @work @union
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