You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive-Red Molly

[ti:You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive] [ar:Red Molly] [al:James] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.05]You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive - Red Molly [00:00.75]Composed by：Darrell Scott [00:01.38]In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky [00:09.94]That's the place where I trace my bloodline [00:17.32]And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone [00:24.37]You will never leave Harlan alive [00:33.40]Oh my granddad's dad walked down [00:37.97]Katahrins Mountain [00:40.18]And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride [00:45.78]Said won't you walk with me out of the mouth [00:50.85]Of this holler [00:52.87]Or we'll never leave Harlan alive [00:58.39]Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning [01:05.12]And the sun goes down about three in the day [01:11.24]And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking [01:17.72]And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away [01:26.10]No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains [01:32.39]Till a man from the Northeast arrived [01:37.79]He was waving hundred dollar bills he said [01:41.92]I'll pay ya for your minerals [01:44.89]But he never left Harlan alive [01:51.11]About granny sold out cheap and they moved out west [01:56.19]Of Pineville [01:57.51]To a farm where big Richland River winds [02:03.46]I bet they danced them a jig laughed [02:07.92]And sang a new song [02:09.82]Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive [02:41.68]But the times they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling [02:48.15]And old granddad knew what he'd do to survive [02:53.74]Well he went and dug for Harlan coal [02:57.58]And sent the money back to Granny [03:00.54]But he never left Harlan alive [03:06.52]Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning [03:12.94]And the sun goes down about three in the day [03:18.98]And you fill your cup with whatever [03:23.29]Bitter brew you're drinking [03:25.51]And you spend your life just thinking how to get away [03:33.07]And the sun comes up about ten in the morning [03:39.54]And the sun goes down [03:41.63]And the sun goes down about three in the day [03:45.85]And you fill your cup with whatever [03:50.00]Bitter brew you're drinking [03:52.19]And you spend your life [03:54.62]Diggin' coal from the bottom of your grave