Standard (EADGBE)

Travelin’ on down the coal town road

Well somebody said that’s a strange tattoo

Someday when I’m dead and gone

Listenin’ to my rubber tires whine

You have on the side of your head

To heaven the land of my dreams

Goodbye to Buckeye, White Sycamore

I said, that’s a blue mark left by the coal

I won’t have to worry about losing my job

I leaving you behind

Little more and I’d been dead.

To bad time and big machines

Oh, I’ve been a coal miner all my life

I love the rumble, I love the dark

Oh! I got no house Lord I got no job

Laying down track in a hole

Lord, I love the cool of the slate

Just got a worried soul

Got a back like ironwood, bent by the wind

But it’s going down that new road lookin’ for a job

And a blue tattoo on the side of my head

Blood veins as blue as the coal

Travelin’ and lookin’ I hate

Left by that number 9 coal

Blood veins as blue as the coal

Travelin’ and lookin’ I hate

Left by that number 9 coal

Left by that number 9 coal