Johnny Cash Loading coal Album: Ride This Train T.Vincent CAPO: 3rd / Play: G INRTO: C G D G VERSE: G Em My pappy said when I was seventeen C G You're six feet tall and you face is clean G C G And it don't look right for a boy that old G Em To not make a livin' loading coal CHORUS: Em G Loading coal loading coal G C G I'm a double-first cousin to a dad-blamed mole G C G Never get rich for to save my soul G Em D G And forty-eleven years of loading coal loading coal VERSE: G Em Ain't never got aquainted with a dollor bill C G And I don't ever reckon that I ever will G C G A dollar ain't made for a fellow I'm told G Em That scoops up a livin' loading coal REPEAT CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G VERSE: G Em I cussed everything in the mining camp C G From my shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp G C G But I know just as well when I grow old G Em I'll still be a cussin' but loading coal REPEAT CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G VERSE: G Em I know just as well as coal is Black C G One of these days the mines will strike G C G And I'll sit around starving til I'm finally told G Em There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal REPEAT CHORUS G Loading coal, Loading coal, (fade.....)
