Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Trip To Hyden, artist - Tom T. Hall. Album song In Search Of A Song, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 31.12.1970
Record label: A Mercury Nashville Release;
Song language: English
Trip To Hyden |
Tossed and turned the night before in some old motel |
Subconsciously recallin' some old sinful thing I’d done |
My buddy drove the car and those big coal trucks shook us up |
As we drove on into Hyden in the early morning sun |
Past the hound dogs and some domineckered chickens |
Temporary-lookin' houses with their lean and bashful kids |
Every hundred yards a sign proclaimed |
That Christ was coming soon |
And I thought, «Well, man, he’d sure be disappointed if he did.» |
On the way we talked about the 40 miners |
Of the 39 who died and one who lived to tell the tale |
We stopped for beans and cornbread at the Ed & Lois Cafe |
Then went to see the sherrif at the Leslie County Jail |
They took us to the scene of that disaster |
I was so surprised to not find any sign of death at all |
Just another country hillside with some mudholes and some junk |
The mines were deadly silent like a rathole in the wall |
«It was just like being right inside of a shotgun.» |
The old man coughed and lit a cigarette that he had rolled |
Back in town I bought a heavy jacket from a store |
It was sunny down in Hyden but somehow the town was cold |
The old man introduced the undertaker |
Who seemed refreshed despite the kind of work I knew he did |
We talked about the pretty lady from the Grand Ole Opry |
An' we talked about the money she was raisin' for the kids |
Well, I guess the old man thought we were reporters |
He kept reminding me of how his simple name was spelled |
Some lady said, «They worth more money now than when they’s a-livin'. |
«And I’ll leave it there cause I suppose she told it pretty well |