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 hate

Travelin' and lookin? I hate

Some 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