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 hateTravelin' and lookin’
	I hateSome 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

	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 hateTravelin' and lookin'
	I hateSome 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