Kathy Mattea - Coal tattoo

^AmTravelin’ on down the^F coal town road Well somebody said that’s a strange tattoo Someday when I’m dead and gone

^GListenin’ to my rubber ti^Amres whine You have on the side of your head To heaven the land of my dreams

^AmGoodbye to Buckeye, W^Fhite Sycamore I said, that’s a blue mark left by the coal I won’t have to worry about losing my job

^GI leaving you beh^Amind Little more and I’d been dead. To bad time and big machines

^FOh, I’ve been a coal mine^Gr all my life I love the rumble, I love the dark Oh! I got no house Lord I got no job

^FLaying down track in a^G hole Lord, I love the cool of the slate Just got a worried soul

^AmGot a back like ironwood, bent by the^F wind But it’s going down that new road lookin’ for a job And a blue tattoo on the side of my head

^GBlood veins as bl^Amue as the coal Travelin’ and lookin’ I hate Left by that number 9 coal ^GBlood veins as b^Amlue as the coal Travelin’ and lookin’ I hate Left by that number 9 coal Left by that number 9 coal