歌曲名 Youll Never Leave Harlan Alive (Album Version)

歌手名 Patty Loveless

作词：Darrell Scott

作曲：Darrell Scott

In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky

That's the place where I trace my bloodline

And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone

You will never leave Harlan alive

Oh my grandfather's dad crossed the

Cumberland

Mountains

Where he took a pretty girl to be his bride

Said Won't you walk with me out of the mouth

of this holler Or we'll never leave Harlan alive

Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin'

And the sun goes down about three in the day

And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinkin'

And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains

Till a man from the northeast arrived

Waving hundred dollar bills

Said I'll pay you for your minerals

But he never left

Harlan alive

Grandma sold out cheap and they moved out west of

Pineville To a farm where Big Richland River winds

And I bet they danced them a jig

And they laughed and sang a new song

Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive

But the times they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling

And old grandad knew what he'd do to survive

He went and dug for

Harlan coal And sent the money back to grandma

But he never left Harlan alive

Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin'

And the sun goes down about three in the day

And you'll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinkin'

And you spend your life diggin' coal

from the bottom of your grave

You'll never leave

Harlan alive