Kathy Mattea - Coal Tattoo lyrics
[Kathy Mattea - Coal Tattoo lyrics]
Travelling on down that coal town road
Listen to my rubber tires whine
Goodbye to buckeye and white sycamore
I'm leaving you behind
Oh I've been a coal miner all my life
Laying down track in a hole
Got a back like ironwood, bent like 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 looking for a job
Travelling and looking I hate
Travelling and looking I hate
Some day when I'm dead and gone
To Heaven the land of my dreams
I won't have to worry 'bout losing my job
To bad times and big machines
Oh I got no house Lord, I got no job
Just 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
Listen to my rubber tires whine
Goodbye to buckeye and white sycamore
I'm leaving you behind
Oh I've been a coal miner all my life
Laying down track in a hole
Got a back like ironwood, bent like 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 looking for a job
Travelling and looking I hate
Travelling and looking I hate
Some day when I'm dead and gone
To Heaven the land of my dreams
I won't have to worry 'bout losing my job
To bad times and big machines
Oh I got no house Lord, I got no job
Just 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