| Coal Tattoo |
| Kathy Mattea |
| Travelin' down that coal town road. Listenin' to my rubber tires whine. |
| Goodbye to Buckeye and white Sycamore. I'm leavin' you behind. |
| I've been coal miner all of my life. Layin' down track in the hole. |
| Gotta back like an ironwood, bit by the wind. |
| Blood veins blue as the coal. Blood veins blue as the coal. |
| Solo(Mandolin) |
| Somebody said, "That's a strange tattoo you have on the side of your head." |
| I said, "That's the blueprint left by the coal. A little more and I'd been dead. |
| Well, I love the rumble and I love the dark. I love the cool of the slade, |
| And it's on down the new road, lookin' for a job. |
| Travelin' nook in my head. travelin' nook in my head. |
| Solo(Mandolin, Fiddle) |
| Some day when I'm dead and gone to heaven, the land of my dreams. |
| I won't have to worry on losin' my job, on bad times and big machines. |
| I've got no house and I got no job, just got a worried soul |
| And a blue tattoo on the side of my head left by the number nine coal. |
| Left by the number nine coal. |
| Ending(Mandolin, Fiddle) |