Arkansas Coal Suite

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Not so long ago just outside Paris 
Arkansas
a young lady had a mountain to climb

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Gonna climb up this mountain cause 
there’s one thing I know
My daddy is in his mountain diggin' 
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Arkansas coal
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Yes I hear my mama calling, I let 
her wait ten minutes more she’ll be 
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Cause I like to lay on the ground 
and listen to the sound of my daddy
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Digging Arkansas coal

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I was born in this mountain went
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 down here since I was nine years 
old
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And I know some day I’ll die in 
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this mountain diggin', diggin'
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Arkansas, Arkansas coal, Arkansas 
coal

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Married me a good man back in ’59,
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Knew he was an Arkansas coalminer 
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and that suited me fine
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Got us a little daughter, she's 
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only eight years old
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Wishing she was a man like her 
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daddy diggin' Arkansas coal

Billie get off that mountain, Billie
 you got to go to school
Billie your mama and daddy ain’t 
gonna raise you no natural fool
Ain’t gonna raise you no natural 
fool

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Mama why is the earth shaking? 
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Mama is the world coming to an end?
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Mama why are you crying? Is it 
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another cave in?

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My God the rocks are fallin', 
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ten thousand tons on my head
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I knew someday this would happen 
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so this is how it feels to be dead
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So this is how it feels to be dead