Patty Loveless – Youll Never Leave Harlan Alive (Guitar)

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In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky

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That's the place where I trace my bloodline

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And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone 

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"You'll never leave Harlan alive"

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Oh, my grandfather's dad crossed the Cumberland Mountains

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Where he took a pretty girl to be his bride

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Said, "Won't you walk with me out the mouth of this holler

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Or we'll never leave Harlan alive?"

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Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning

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And the sun goes down about three in the day

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And you'll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking

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And you spend your life just thinking of how to get away

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No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains

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'Til a man from the northeast arrived

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Waving hundred dollar bills, said, "I'll pay you for your minerals"

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But he never left Harlan alive

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Grandma sold out cheap and they moved out west of Pineville

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To a farm where big Richland River winds

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And I bet they danced them a jig and they laughed and sang a new song

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"Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive?"

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But the times they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling

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And old granddad knew what he'd do to survive

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He went and dug for Harlan coal and sent the money back to grandma

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But he never left Harlan alive

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The sun comes up about ten in the morning

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And the sun goes down about three in the day

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And you'll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking

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And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave

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Hm hm hmm hm hm hmm hm hm hmm hmm hmm

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Hm hm hmm hm hm hmm hm hmm 

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Hm hm hmm hm hm hmm hm hmm hm hm hmm

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"You'll never leave Harlan alive"