The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore Lyrics

I remember the ways in the by gone days When we were in our prime How us and John L Give the old man hell Down in the blue diamond mine Well the whistle blowed And the rooster cr...Read Full Lyrics

[Chorus: ] Oh can't you see that pretty little bird Sing with all his heart and soul He's got a blood red spot on his wing And all the rest of him is black, as coal Of all the col...Read Full Lyrics

Well the night is as thick as silence You can't cut it with a knife A man lies in the hospital Draining out his life The trucks are on the back road And in the dark the headlights ...Read Full Lyrics

[Chorus] Oh the green rolling hills of West Virginia Are the nearest thing to heaven that I know Tho' the times are sad and dreary I cannot linger here They'll keep me and never le...Read Full Lyrics

Travelin' on down that coal town road Listen to my rubber tires whine Goodbye to buckeye and white sycamore I'm leavin' you behind Oh, I've been a coal miner all my life Layin' do...Read Full Lyrics

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'll never leave Harlan alive" Oh, my gran...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul Till the stream of your blood runs as bl...Read Full Lyrics

Now that our mountain is growing With people hungry for wealth How come it's you that's a going And I'm left all alone by myself? We used to hunt the cool caverns Deep in our fore...Read Full Lyrics

He's hard more hard luck Than most men could stand The mines was his first love But never his friend He's lived a hard life And hard he'll die Black lung's done got him He's time i...Read Full Lyrics

Reduced into tearsCold winter gustMy diseaseYour time to shineSince the startUpholding the trustSearch your heartIt is mineUrgent and unaccidentalBroken foe in my sightStructuralSe...Read Full Lyrics