Lonnie Spiker Music

Lyrics

Keystone Coal
Written By: Lonnie Spiker , Karen Pendley
Daddy always paid his debt to the company store
Kept his family fed but there wasn’t much more
With a pick axe and shovel and dynamiting pole
Daddy dug his grave in that KEYSTONE COAL

In a gray patch town that seldom saw the sun
That coke oven cloud made that steel mill run
Daddy and his brothers worked that Bute mine hole
Made Frick a wealthy man in that KEYSTONE COAL

Chorus
KEYSTONE COAL, KEYSTONE COAL
My blood runs deep in the veins
Of that KEYSTONE COAL

Daddy started as a breaker boy and worked his way down
Ended up a shot fire two miles underground
Black dust and the darkness can kill a mans soul
But daddy kept on digging that KEYSTONE COAL

Everybody ran when then that coal tiple moaned
Mama said your daddys a quarter mile below
With a pick axe and shovel and a dynamiting pole
They dug for may daddy in that KEYSTONE COAL

Chorus
KEYSTONE COAL, KEYSTONE COAL
My blood runs deep in the veins
Of that KEYSTONE COAL