Now God made coal for the men who sold their lives to West Van Lear
And you keep on diggin' 'til you get down there where it's darker than your darkest
fear.
And that woman in the kitchen she keeps on cookin' but she ain't had meat in years
Just live off bread and live off hope and a pool of a million tears.
Now lemme tell you somethin' 'bout the Gospel and make sure that you mark it down
When God spoke out "Let there be light" he put the first of us in the ground.
And we'll keep on diggin' 'til the comin' of the lord and Gabriel's trumpet sound
'Cause if you ain't minin' for the company boy then there ain't much in this town.
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that
knew
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.
Now it's darker than a dungeon and it's deeper than a well
So sometimes I imagine that I'm getting pretty close to hell.
And in my darkest hour, I cry out to the lord.
He says keep on 'a minin' boy cause that's why you were born.
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that
knew
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.