Key: Bb / 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: Ain't never got aquainted with a dollor bill And I don't ever reckon that I ever will A dollar ain't made for a fellow I'm told That scoops up a livin' loading coal REPEAT CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G VERSE: I cussed everything in the mining camp But I know just as well when I grow old I'll still be a cussin' but loading coal REPEAT CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G VERSE: I know just as well as coal is black One of these days the mines will strike And I'll sit around starving til I'm finally told There's a nickel more a ton for loading coal REPEAT CHORUS G Loading coal, Loading coal, (fade.............)