Maxida Märak & Downhill Bluegrass Band - 09. You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive | Текст песни

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In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky
That’s the place where I traced my bloodline
And it’s there I read on a hillside gravestone
”You’ll never leave Harlan alive”
Oh my grandfather’s dad crossed the Cumberland Mountains
Where he took a pretty girl to be his bride
Said Won’t you walk with me out the mouth of this holler
Or we’ll never leave Harlan alive
Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin’
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you’ll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you’re drinkin’
And you spend your life just thinkin’ of how to get away
No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
‘Til a man from the northeast arrived
Waving hundred dollar bills
Said I’ll pay you for your minerals
But he never left Harlan alive
Grandma sold out cheap and they moved out west of Pikeville
To a farm where Big Richland River winds
And I bet they danced them a jig
And they laughed and sang a new song
”Who said we’d never leave Harlan alive”
But the times got hard and tobacco wasn’t selling
And old grandad knew what he’d do to survive
He went and dug for Harlan coal
And sent the money back to grandma
But he never left Harlan alive
When my people suffer, the Company gets their money
Its been the same procedure for the last four hundred years
For when the natives have no land, the natives have no saying
But I’ll never leave Sápmi alive
Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin’
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you’ll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you’re drinkin’
And you spend your life just thinkin’ of how to get away

Music and Lyrics Darrell Scott