Loading Coals 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′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

Loadin′ coal, loadin' coal, loadin' coal