Loading Coal (remastered 2019) Songtext
von 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...


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 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...