Dark and Bloody Ground (Live)

This land was ours far as the eye could see
 We took it from the Cherokee with a scalping knife
 And a white man's disease
 When the smallpox ravaged their towns
 We came in and burnt them down
 And took this dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 I took a prisoner 'cause I needed a wife
 I broke her will she gave me a son I spared her life
 It was a fate much worse than death
 Yeah we were kissed by the devil's breath
 Set down on this dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 We'll lay our bodies down
 Put 'em six feet in the ground
 And when the long cold winter ends
 Oh the sun comes shinin' in
 The crops will grow again
 In this dark and bloody ground
 They gave me three hundred dollars
 Put a pen in my hand
 I was drunk on corn liquor
 I signed the rights away to my land
 The coal company tore my homestead down
 Ripped the black gold from the ground
 Left a hole in this dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 If Jesus was born in Kentucky
 They'd make him pay for his nails
 Worse yet he'd have to work off his debt
 Down here in this hell
 Where they pay you off in company scrip
 And your life it don't mean shit
 Just a piece of this dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 This dark and bloody ground
 I will lay my body down
 Put me six feet in the ground
 And when the long cold winter ends
 The sun comes shinin' in
 And the crops will grow again