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 loading coal
Ref. Loading coal, loading 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 loading coal Loading 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 loading coal
Ref. Loading coal, loading 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 loading coal Loading 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 cussing but loading coal
Ref. Loading coal, loading 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 loading coal Loading coal...
I know just as well as coal is black One of these days the mines were strike And I'll sit around starving 'till I'm finally told There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal
Ref. Loading coal, loading 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 loading coal Loading coal... Loading coal... Loading coal...Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
