Arkansas Coal - Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood

Not so long ago, Just outside Paris, Arkansas

A young lady had a mountain to climb

Gonna climb up this mountain

Cause there’s one thing I know

My daddy’s in this mountain

Digging Arkansas coal

Yes I hear my mama calling

I’ll let her wait ten minutes more

She’ll be sold, cause I like to lay on the ground

And listen to the sound

Of my daddy digging

Arkansas coal

I was born in this mountain

Been down her since I was nine years old

And I know some day I’ll

Die in this mountain

Digging, digging

Arkansas, Arkansas coal

Coal

Arkansas coal

Married me a good man

Back in '59

Knew he was an Arkansas coal miner

And that suited me fine

Got us a little daughter

She’s only eight years old

Wishing she was a man like her daddy

Digging Arkansas coal

Billy, get off of that mountain

Billy, you gotta go to school

Billy, you’re mama and daddy

Ain’t gonna raise you no natural fool

Ain’t gonna raise you no natural fool

Mama, why’s the earth shaking

Mama, is the world coming to an end

Mama, why are you crying

Is it another caving

My god, the rocks are falling

Ten thousand tons on my head

I knew someday this would happen

So this is how it feels to be dead

So this is how it feels to be dead

Gonna climb up that mountain

Cause there’s one thing I know

My daddy’s in that mountain

Digging Arkansas coal