Johnny Cash - INTEGRAL JOHNNY CASH 1954 - 1962

Loading Coal

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 living loading coal"

Loading coal, loading coal
I'm a double first cousin to
A dag-blamed mole never
Get rich for to save my soul
In forty-eleven years of loading
Coal, loading coal

Ain't never got acquainted
With a dollar bill and I don't
Ever reckon that I ever will
A dollar isn't made for a fellar
I'm told that scoops up a
Living loading coal

Loading coal, loading coal
I'm a double first cousin to
A dag-blamed mole never
Get rich for to save my soul
In forty-eleven years of loading
Coal, loading 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-cussing, but loading coal

Loading coal, loading coal
I'm a double first cousin to
A dag-blamed mole never
Get rich for to save my soul
In forty-eleven years of loading
Coal, loading coal

I know just as well as coal
Is black one of these days
The mines were strike and
I'll sit around starving till
I'm finally told there's a
Nickel more a ton for loading coal

Loading coal, loading coal
I'm a double first cousin to a
Dag-blamed mole never get rich
For to save my soul in forty
Eleven years of loading coal
Loading coal



Credits
Writer(s): Merle Travis
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

  1. My Treasure
  2. Hey Porter
  3. Cry, Cry, Cry
  4. Port Of Lonely Hearts
  5. Folsom Prison Blues
  6. So Doggone Lonesome
  7. Mean Eyed Cat
  8. Luther Played The Boogie
  9. Get Rhythm
  10. I Walk The Line

All Album Tracks: INTEGRAL JOHNNY CASH 1954 - 1962 >

Altri album

  1. Songwriter
  2. Spotlight / Well Alright
  3. Well Alright
  4. The Best of Johnny Cash: Sun Records Essentials
  5. The Best of Johnny Cash: Sun Records Essentials (feat. The Tennessee Two)
  6. INTEGRAL JOHNNY CASH 1954 - 1962
  7. My Way Volume II
  8. My Way Volume III
  9. My Way
  10. Bear's Sonic Journals: Live at The Carousel Ballroom, 4/24/1968

All Albums of Johnny Cash >

© 2025 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy

Rockol

  • Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
  • Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
  • Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
  • Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
  • Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.