Coal Miner's Daughter (Recitation)

歌詞

Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor but we had love That's the one thing my Daddy made sure of And he shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar My daddy, he worked all night in the Van Lear coal mines All day long in the field hoeing corn Mama rocked the baby at night And read the Bible by the coal oil light And everything would start all over come break of morn Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a miner's pay Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day I've seen her fingers bleed To complain there was no need She'd smile in Mama's understanding way In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear But in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pair From a mail-order catalogue, money made by selling a hog Daddy always managed to get the money somewhere Yes I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well, the well where I drew water The work we done was hard At night we'd sleep, 'cause we were all tired I never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler Well a lot of things have changed, since way back then And it's so good to be back home again Not much left but the floor Nothing lives here anymore Except a memory of a coal miner's daughter