Brad Paisley You`ll Never Leave Harlan Alive Lyrics

You`ll Never Leave Harlan Alive Lyrics

In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky

 That's the place where I trace my bloodline

 And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone

 You will never leave Harlan alive

 

 Oh, my granddad's  dad walked down 

 Katahrins Mountain

 And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride

 Said, won't you walk with me out of the mouth

 Of this holler

 Or we'll never leave Harlan alive

 

 Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning

 And the sun goes down about three in the day

 And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking

 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 he said I'll pay ya for your minerals

 But he never left Harlan alive

 

 Granny sold out cheap and they moved out west 

 Of Pineville

 To a farm where big Richland River winds

 I bet they danced them a jig, 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 ole granddad knew what he'd do to survive

 He went and dug for Harlan coal

 And sent the money back to granny

 But he never left Harlan alive

 

 Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning

 And the sun goes down about three in the day

 And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking

 And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

 

 Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning

 And the sun goes down about three in the day

 And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking

 And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave

 

 In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky

 That's the place where I trace my bloodline

 And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone

 You will never leave Harlan alive