Black Nag

歌词

There ain’t a job in these mountains you don’t pay for for years

But it’s good to feel useful anyway

I heard down South’s a fountain they’ll throw pennies in for years

Till the coal comes to rest under the weight

It’s with those kinds of things I can relate

The other night I was dreamin’, had a shovel in my hand

And my Grandfather’s land between my toes

Well he asked me to plug up all the holes in our hills

But they sure pay the bills, Heaven knows

There’s a flood in Glen Canyon, but they say it’s a gas

Noah’s flood in a flash, sins washed away

But the folks ain’t abandoned, they’re still sunnin’ by the lake

A pretty gash in the wake of the fray

We can change God’s creation in a day

There’s a sign on my head where the miner’s lamp been

That says coal’s all that’s in this boy’s cards

And I can’t help but wonder when I think of the grin

That my Grandfather pinned between his scars

He said up here’s just closer to the stars

Lord, wash away this black day, wash away

From the peaks to the hollers and graves

Bring down a horse be it red, white, or gray

But just hold that black nag for a day

Bring down a horse be it red, white, or gray

But just hold that black nag for a day