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 [Repeat x2]



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 [Repeat x2]



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 [Repeat x2]