Harlan Man

I'm a Harlan man

I went down in the mine when I was barely grown

It was easy then

'Cause I didn't know what I know now

But I'm a family man

It's the only life that I've ever known

But I'm a Harlan man

Just as long as my luck and my lungs hold out

I'm a mountain man

I'm born in East Kentucky, here I'll stay

If it's the good Lord's plan

I'll wake up in the mornin' and find I'm lookin' at the end

Of another long week and I can draw my pay

'Cause I'm a Harlan man

And you'll never catch me whinin', I ain't that kind

I'm a union man

Just like my daddy and all my kin

I took a union stand

No matter what the company said

I got me two good hands

And just as long as I'm able, I won't give in

'Cause I'm a Harlan man

Be a coal minin' mother till the day I'm dead