Coal Miner's Blues

Coal Miner's Blues - The Carter Family

Some blues are just blues

Mine are the miner's blues

Some blues are just blues

Mine are the miner's blues

My troubles are coming by threes and by twos

Blues and more blues

It's that coal black blues

Blues and more blues

It's that coal black blues

Got coal in my hair got coal in my shoes

These blues are so blue

They are the coal black blues

These blues are so blue

They are the coal black blues

For my place will cave in and my life I will lose

You say they are blues

These old miner's blues

You say they are blues

These old miner's blues

Now I must have sharpened

These picks that I use

I'm out with these blues

Dirty coal black blues

I'm out with these blues

Dirty coal black blues

We'll lay off tomorrow with the coal miner's blues