You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive Lyrics
Brad Paisley
- 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'
- When my granddad's dad walked down Catron'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 you're drinkin'
- And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away
- Well 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 of Pineville
- To a farm where big Richland River winds
- I bet they danced them a jig and 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 ole granddad knew what he'd do to survive
- He went and dug for Harlan coal
- 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 you're drinkin'
- And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away
- 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 you're drinking
- And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave
- 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'
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