Now

God

made

coal

for

the

men

who

sold

their

lives

to

West

Van

Le-

ar

And

you

keep

on

dig-

gin'

'til

you

get

down

there

where

it's

dar-

ker

than

your

dar-

kest

fears

And

that

wo-

man

in

the

kit-

chen

she

keeps

on

coo-

kin'

but

she

ain't

had

meat

in

years

Just

live

off

bread,

live

off

hope

in

a

pool

of

a

mil-

lion

tears

Now

let

me

tell

you

some-

thin'

'bout

the

gos-

pel

And

make

sure

that

you

mark

it

down

When

God

spoke

out

"Let

there

be

light"

He

put

the

first

of

us

in

the

ground

And

we'll

keep

on

dig-

gin'

'til

the

co-

min'

of the

Lord

And

Gab-

ri-

el's

trum-

pet

sounds

'Cause

if

you

ain't

mi-

nin'

for

the

com-

pa-

ny

boy

There

ain't

much

in

this

town

We

could-

've

made

some-

thin'

of

our-

selves

out

there

If

we'-

d

lis-

tened

to

the

folks

that

knew

That

coal

is

gon-

na

bu-

ry

you

Now

it's

dar-

ker

than

a

dun-

geon

And

it's

dee-

per

than

a

well

So

some-

times

I

i-

ma-

gine

That

I'm

get-

tin'

pret-

ty

close

to

hell

And

in

my

dar-

kest

ho-

ur

I

cry

out

to

the

Lord

He

says

"Keep

o-

n

mi-

nin'

boy

'Cause

that's

why

you

were

born"

Well

we

could'-

ve

made

some-

thin'

of

our-

selves

out

there

If

we'-

d

lis-

tened

to

the

folks

that

knew

That

coal

is

gon-

na

bu-

ry

you