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...
[ Ac.guitar ]
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...
[ Ac,guitar ]
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...