Coal Tattoo
Billy Edd Wheeler Writer Kathy Mattea 
Am (x02210@1)                   FTravelin' (133211@1)on down the coal town road
Well somebody said that's a strange tattoo
Someday when I'm dead and gone

G (320003@1)                        AmListenin' (x02210@1)to my rubber tires whine
You have on the side of your head
To heaven the land of my dreams

Am (x02210@1)                 FGoodbye (133211@1)to Buckeye, White Sycamore
I said, that's a blue mark left by the coal
I won't have to worry about losing my job

G (320003@1)              AmI (x02210@1)leaving you behind
Little more and I'd been dead.
To bad time and big machines

F (133211@1)                        GOh, (320003@1)I've been a coal miner all my life
I love the rumble, I love the dark
Oh! I got no house Lord I got no job

F (133211@1)                   GLaying (320003@1)down track in a hole
Lord, I love the cool of the slate
Just got a worried soul

Am (x02210@1)                                 FGot (133211@1)a back like ironwood, bent by the wind
But it's going down that new road lookin' for a job
And a blue tattoo on the side of my head

G (320003@1)              AmBlood (x02210@1)veins as blue as the coal
Travelin' and lookin' I hate
Left by that number 9 coal
G (320003@1)             AmBlood (x02210@1)veins as blue as the coal
Travelin' and lookin' I hate
Left by that number 9 coal
Left by that number 9 coal