Blue Tattoo (coal Town Road)

Travelin' down that coaltown road,Listen to my rubber tires whine;Goodbye to Buckeye and White Sycamore,I'm leavin' you behind.I've been a coal miner all my lifeLayin' down track in the hole,Got a back like an ironwood bent by the windBlood veins as black as the coal.Somebody said "That's a strange tattooYou have on the side of your head."I said "That's a mark of number nine coalA little more and I'd be dead"But I love the rumble and I love the darkI love the cool of the slate.But it's travelin' down this new road lookin' for a jobIt's the travelin' and lookin' I hate.I've stood for the union, I walked in the line,I fought against the company;I stood for the U. M. W. of A.Now who's gonna stand for me?Cause I got no job, I got no pay,I just got a worried soul;And this blue tattoo on the side of my headLeft by the number nine coal.Someday when I'm dead and gone