Loading Coal - Johnny Cash
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