John Calvin & The Barnstormers – Pike County Coal (Official Music Video)

John Calvin & The Barnstormers
Pike County Coal
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Ben Miller
Video by Caleb Quanbeck
Additional Video Production by Magnitude Creative
Purchase Link:
Rock Sun Records/Virgin Music Group

LYRICS
Where’d my time go
When did my youth end
How my life pass by so fast, never see it again
I’ve worked like a dog
Down deep in a mine
Lived my life in coal black, Never see the sunshine
Lord take me away
Let this be my dying day I’m sure ready (for you to call me on home)
You know I’ve got my children raised, you done took my wife away
I’m begging won’t you please take my soul
Cause my hearts black as Pike County coal

They hauled it away
The coal had ran dry
I watched that black smoke fade away, left me here behind
Took damn near forty years
For me to end up here
At the bottom
Trapped here four miles below
Saw the walls start caving in
Me and Fifty other men
Prayed our final prayer to the lord
And dig us up like Pike County coal

Now it’s written down
All over my grave
You’ll never find my body, never find where I lay
But I’m still around
My soul won’t move on
I haunt these hills and hollers til the last seam is gone

Took damn near forty years
For Me to end up here at the bottom
Trapped here four miles below
Saw the walls start caving in
Me and fifty other men
Prayed our final prayers to the lord
And dig us up like Pike County coal.