Maria Daines ~ Dirty Coal

This song is inspired by ’Inside Appalachia - First Impressions us’ a @PeterSantenello documentary on YouTube about the hard working people of West Virginia whose lives have changed through the years and since the end of coal mining. ’Dirty Coal’ Dead town without the dirty coal Watch ’em come n’ watch ’em go Had it all like the river flow Left it there so long ago, dirty coal Spent it all at the company store Wasn’t worth much n’ it didn’t go far Couldn’t spend it further up the road Got what the black stuff, the black stuff owed, yeah Remember my people, they all gone down Down the road, another empty town Hard times made us n’ we all know Dirty coal still blowin’, blowin’ through our soul, yeah ’Lectric comin’ for the ’vironment Don’t mean nothin’, can’t pay the rent Think they got us all bought n’ sold Livin’ in a holler, no wheels, no gold, dirty