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Verse 1
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In the deep,
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dark hills of eastern Kentucky
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That's the place where I
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trace my bloodline
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And it's there I read on
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a hillside gravestone
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"You will never leave
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Harlan alive"
Verse 2
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Well my grandad's dad walked
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down Katahrin's Mountain
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And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
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He said, "Won't you walk with me
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out of the mouth of this holler
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Or we'll never leave
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Harlan alive"
Verse 3
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about ten in the morning
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And the sun goes down about
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three in the day
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And you fill your cup with whatever
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bitter brew your drinking
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And you spend your life just thinking
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Verse 4
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No one ever knew there was
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coal in them mountains
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Til a man from the northeast arrived
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Waving hundred dollar bills,
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he said "I'll pay you for your minerals"
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But he nev er left Harlan alive
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Verse 5
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Well Granny, she sold out cheap and
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they moved out west to Pineville
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To a farm where Big Rich
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land River winds
And I'll bet they danced them a jig,
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and they laughed and sang a new song
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"Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive?"
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Verse 6
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But the times, they got hard and
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tobacco wasn't selling
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And old Granddad knew what
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he'd do to survive
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He went and dug for Harlan coal
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and sent the money back to Granny
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But he never left Harlan
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Outro 1
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