You'll Never Leave Harlin Alive

Patty Loveless

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In the deep dark  hills of Eastern  Kentucky
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That's the place where I traced my bloodline.

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And it's there I read on a hillside  gravestone
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You'll never leave Harlan alive.



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Oh, my Grandfathers Dad crossed the  Cumberland Mountains
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Where he took a pretty girl to be his bride.
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He said  "Won't you walk with me out of the mouth of this holler.
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Or we'll never leave  Harlan  Alive."


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Where the sun comes up, about ten in the morning
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And  the sun goes down about three in the day
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And you fill your cup whatever bitter brew your drinking
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And you spend your life, just thinking of, how to get away.




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No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
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Until a man  from the Northeast arrived.
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Waving hundred  dollar bills said I'll pay for your minerals
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He never left Harlan  alive.


 

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Grandma sold out cheap and they moved out west of Pineville
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To a farm where big Richland River winds
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and I'll bet they  danced a little jig 
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and they laughed and sang a little song
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Who said we'd  never leave Harlan alive.


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But the times they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling
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And Old Granddad knew what he'd do to survive.
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He  went and dug for Harlan coal and sent the money back to Grandma
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But he never left Harlan alive.


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Where the sun comes up, about ten in the morning
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And the sun goes down, about three in the day
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And you fill  your cup whatever bitter brew your drinking
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And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of the grave



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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Mmmmm you'll never leave Harlan alive


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Mmmmm you'll never leave Harlan alive