Coal Tattoo Lyrics - Coal - Kathy Mattea

Travelin' on 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 miner all my life 

Layin' down track in a hole 

Got a back like ironwood, bent by 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 lookin' for a job 

Travelin' and lookin I hate 

Travelin' and lookin I hate 

Some day when I'm dead and gone 

To heaven the land of my dreams 

I won't have to worry bout losin' my job 

To bad times and big machines 

Oh, I got no house Lord, I got no job 

Just got 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