Johnny Cash – Loading Coal (Guitar)

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My pappy said when I was seventeen

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You're six feet tall and you face is clean

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And it don't look right for a boy that old

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To not make a livin' loading coal

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Loading coal loading coal

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I'm a double-first cousin to a dad-blamed mole

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Never get rich for to save my soul

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And forty-eleven years of loading coal loading coal

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Ain't  never  got  aquainted  with a dollor  bill

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And I don't ever reckon that I ever will

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A dollar ain't made for a fellow I'm told

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That scoops up a livin' loading coal

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I cussed everything in the mining camp

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From my shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp

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But I know just as well when I grow old

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I'll still be a cussin' but loading coal

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I know just as well as coal is Black

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One of these days the mines will strike

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And I'll sit around starving til I'm finally told

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There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal

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Loading coal, Loading coal, (fade.....)