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