Interpret:

Johnny Cash

Album:

Ride This Train

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 
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


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 
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


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 
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 ....