Coal River

Oh Coal River won't you wash my bones away
 I'm slaving for the company and I can't get any pay
 Well mining coal ain't a way to make a life
 And I can't feed the hunger of three kids and a wife
 Now the hollers are empty
 And the company's left town
 And there ain't no more mountains
 For Coal River to bend around
 Well the curses in these mountains
 Taken many of our kind
 And the souls dance upon the sands
 Where that old river winds
 Oh lord won't you take me
 Before that mountain does
 A life in these hills ain't what I thought it was
 So oh Coal River won't you wash my bones away
 I'm slaving for the company and I can't get any pay
 Well mining coal ain't a way to make a life
 And I can't feed the hunger of three kids and a wife
 Now the hollers are empty
 And the company's left town
 And there ain't no more mountains
 For Coal River to bend around
 Coal River cuts the land
 Of whеre I rest my soul
 Through thesе barren mountains
 My story will be told
 I'm heading for a pine box
 My mining days are through
 Boy, don't trust these mountains
 For a curse they'll put on you