1.Loading Coal
Lyricist：Merle Travis
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 livin'
loadin' coal
Loadin' coal loadin' 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
loadin' coal loadin' 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
livin' loadin' coal
Loadin' coal loadin' 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 cussin'
but loadin' coal
Loadin' coal loadin' coal...
I know just as well as coal is black one of these days the mines
were strike
And I'll sit around starvin' till I'm finally told
There's a nickel more a ton for loadin' coal
Loadin' coal loadin' coal...
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