Loading Coal — текст песни (Johnny Cash)

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 livin` loadin` coal
Loadin` coal loadin` coal I`m a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole
Never get rich for to save my soul and forty `leven years a loadin` coal loadin` coal
Ain`t never got acquainted with a dollar bill and I don`t ever reckon that I ever will
A dollar ain`t made for a fellar I`m told that scoops up a livin` loadin` coal
Loadin` coal loadin` coal...
[ ac.guitar ]
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 cussin` but loadin` coal
Loadin` coal loadin` coal...
[ ac,guitar ]
I know just as well as coal is black one of these days the mines were strike
And I`ll sit around starvin` till I`m finally told
There`s a nickel more a ton for loadin` coal
Loadin` coal loadin` coal...