Billy Edd Wheeler Writer Kathy Mattea 
A5                     F5
Travelin? on down the coal town road
Well somebody said that?s a strange tattoo
Someday when I?m dead and gone 

G5                          A5
Listenin? to my rubber tires whine
You have on the side of your head
To heaven the land of my dreams

A5                   F5
Goodbye 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

G5                A5
I leaving you behind
Little more and I?d been dead.
To bad time and big machines

F5                          G5
Oh, 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

F5                     G5
Laying down track in a hole
Lord, I love the cool of the slate
Just got a worried soul

A5                                   F5
Got 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

G5                A5
Blood veins as blue as the coal
Travelin? and lookin? I hate
Left by that number 9 coal
G5               A5
Blood veins as blue as the coal
Travelin? and lookin? I hate
Left by that number 9 coal
Left by that number 9 coal