Johnny Cash Bottom of a Mountain song lyrics

I was born in West Virginia

Where the land is black with coal

For a man to feed his family

It takes twelve hours a day a diggin' in a dirty black hole

Way down in the bottom of a mountain

Way down in the bottom of a hole

Way down in the bottom of a mountain

I'm diggin' and a shovelin' and a loadin' out the dirty black coal

Some men give their wives jewelry

Some men give their wives gold

But all I can give to my sweet woman

Are the few dollars I make from diggin' out the dirty black coal

Way down in the bottom of a mountain

Way down in the bottom of a hole

Way down in the bottom of a mountain

I'm diggin' and a shovelin' and a loadin' out the dirty black coal

I draw script for most of my money

I never see a lot of that

I work all week and go to church on Sunday

Well the preacher gonna get what's left when they pass the hat

Way down in the bottom of a mountain

Way down in the bottom of a hole

Way down in the bottom of a mountain

I'm diggin' and a shovelin' and a loadin' out the dirty black coal

I'm diggin' and a shovelin' and a loadin' out the dirty black coal