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 hollars are all empty
And the company’s left town
And there ain’t no more mountains
Coal River to around
Well the curses mountains
many of our kind
And the souls upon the sands
Where that river winds
Oh won’t you me
Before that does
A life hills ain’t what I thought was
Coal River the land
where I rest my soul
Through barren mountains
story will told
I’m heading for a pine box
mining days are through
Boy, don’t trust mountains
a curse they’ll put you
So roll 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 hollars are all empty
And the company’s left town
And there ain’t no more mountains
Coal River to around
No, And there ain’t no more mountains
Coal River to around
