Travelin' on down that coal town road   Listen to my rubber tires whine   Goodbye to buckeye and white sycamore   I'm leavin' you behind      Oh, I've been a coal miner all my life   Layin' down track in a hole   Got a back like ironwood, bent by the wind   Blood veins as blue as the coal   Blood veins as blue as the coal      Well, somebody said, ?That's a strange tattoo   You have on the side of your head?   I said, ?That's a blue mark left by the coal   Little more and I'd a been dead?      Oh, I love the rumble and I love the dark   Lord, I love the cool of the slate   But it's going down that new road lookin' for a job   Travelin' and lookin? I hate   Travelin' and lookin? I hate      Some day when I'm dead and gone   To heaven the land of my dreams   I won't have to worry ?bout losin' my job   To bad times and big machines      Oh, I got no house Lord, I got no job   Just got a worried soul   And a blue tattoo on the side of my head   Left by the number nine coal   Left by the number nine coal