gold,
darkest midnight waters
Flowing through my memories
in the shadows of my soul
Cold like gold, he put my daddy under
Like him I'm growing old, digging coal
And a model tea -day king
settled in the valley
Spent thirty years down in
this blackened hell
And all my daddy got
for all those years of tryin'
Was a coal -dust -covered
grave upon the hill
As a child I still remember
those same old temples hummin'
Those mighty diesel train
s would come and go
As a little barefoot boy,
by the coal yards I would wonder
Man, where could they be tak
ing all that coal?
Coal, black gold,
dark as midnight waters
Blowing through my memories
in the shadows of a soul
Coal, black gold,
you put my daddy under
Like him I'm growing old,
digging coal
Was my bride of seventeen,
she long since gave up her dreams
Guess she knows I'll live and
die here diggin' coal
Well, she's a coal miner's daughter,
though it's not the life she wanted
Like me, it's the only one she knows
Coal, black gold,
darkest midnight waters
Blowing through my memories
in the shadows of my soul
Cold like gold, you put my daddy under
Like him I'm growing old, digging coal
Like my daddy, it's the only life I know