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Johnny Cash - Loading Coal: chords

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My pappy said when I was seventeen
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You're six feet tall and you face is clean
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And it don't look right for a boy that old
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To not make a livin' loading coal

Chorus:
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Loading coal loading coal
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I'm a double first cousin to a dag-blamed mole
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Never get rich for to save my soul
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And 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

Chorus:
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

Chorus:
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

Chorus:
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

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