Johnny Cash — Loading Coal

[Verse] 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 living loading coal" [Chorus] Loading coal, loading coal I'm a double first cousin to a dag-blamed mole Never get rich for to save my soul In forty-eleven years of loading coal, loading coal [Verse] Ain't never got acquainted with a dollar bill And I don't ever reckon that I ever will A dollar isn't made for a fellar I'm told That scoops up a living loading coal [Chorus] Loading coal, loading coal I'm a double first cousin to a dag-blamed mole Never get rich for to save my soul In forty-eleven years of loading coal, loading coal [Verse] 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-cussing, but loading coal [Chorus] Loading coal, loading coal I'm a double first cousin to a dag-blamed mole Never get rich for to save my soul In forty-eleven years of loading coal, loading coal [Verse] I know just as well as coal is black One of these days the mines were strike And I'll sit around starving till I'm finally told There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal [Chorus] Loading coal, loading coal I'm a double first cousin to a dag-blamed mole Never get rich for to save my soul In forty-eleven years of loading coal, loading coal