You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive
In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
- 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"
- Well my grandad's dad walked down Katahrin's Mountain
- And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
- He 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 morning
- And the sun goes down about three in the day
- And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew your drinking
- And you spend your life just thinking how to get away
- No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
- Til a man from the northeast arrived
- Waving hundred dollar bills he said "I'll pay you for your minerals"
- But he never left Harlan alive
- Well Granny she sold out cheap and they moved out west to Pineville
- To a farm where Big Richland River winds
- And I'll 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 Granddad knew what he'd do to survive
- He went and dug for Harlan coal and sent the money back to Granny
- But he never left Harlan alive
- Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
- And the sun goes down about three in the day
- And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew your drinking
- And you spend your life just thinking how to get away
- And the sun comes up about ten in the morning
- And the sun goes down about three in the day
- And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew your drinking
- And you spend your life just thinking how to get away
- 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"
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