Lyrics

[Verse 1] We get up in the black Down the Coaltown Road And we hike along the track Where the coal trains load And we make the ponies pull 'Till they nearly break their backs And they're never seen again Down the Coaltown Road [Verse 2] We hear the whistle call Down the Coaltown Road And we take our towels'n all Where the coal trains load In the cages and we drop 'Till there's nowhere elsе to fall And we leave this world bеhind us Down the Coaltown Road [Verse 3] We never see the sun Down the Coaltown Road At a penny for a tonne Where the coal trains load When our shift comes up on top We're so thankful to be done We head home to sleep and dream About the Coaltown Road [Verse 4] There's miners' little sons Down the Coaltown Road Playing with their cowboy guns Where the coal trains load But they'd better make the best Of their childhood while it runs There's a pick and shovel waiting Down the Coaltown Road [Verse 5] If there's a god for us Down the Coaltown Road All the miners He can bless Where the coal trains load For we're sweating in the hole Sucking down the Devil's dust Just the keep the fires a-blazing Down the Coaltown Road [Verse 6] We get up in the black Down the Coaltown Road And we hike along the track Where the coal trains load And we make the ponies pull 'Till they nearly break their backs And they'll never see again Down the Coaltown Road And we make the ponies pull 'Till they nearly break their backs And they'll never see again Down the Coaltown Road