Lyrics Coal Tattoo - Kathy Mattea

Coal Tattoo - Kathy Mattea
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Coal Tattoo, artist - Kathy Mattea. Album song Coal, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 31.03.2008
Record label: Orchard
Song language: English

Coal Tattoo

Travelin' 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 man all my life
Layin' down tracks in the hole
Got a back like an ironwood
Bent by the wind
Blood veins blue as the coal
Blood veins blue as the coal
Somebody said «That's a strange tattoo
You have on the side of your head.»
I said «That's a blue print, left by the coal
Just a little more and I’d be dead»
And I love the rumble and I love the dark
I love the cool of the slate
But it’s on down the new road lookin' for a job
It’s the travelin' and lookin' I hate
I’ve stood for the union, walkin' the line
Fought against the company;
Stood for the U. M. W. of A
Now who’s gonna stand for me?
I got no house and I got no pay
Just got a worried soul;
And this blue tattoo on the side of my head
Left by the number nine coal
Someday when I’m dead and gone
To Heaven, the land of my dreams
I won’t have to worry on losin' my job
To bad times 'n big machines
I ain’t gonna pay my money away
For pensions and hospital plans
I’m gonna pick coal where the blue heavens roll
And sing with the angel bands

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Artist lyrics: Kathy Mattea