[00:00.00]You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive （Version ）-Patty Loveless
[00:16.660]In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
[00:26.30]That's the place where I trace my bloodline
[00:34.140]And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
[00:43.280]You will never leave Harlan alive
[00:55.10]Oh my granddad's dad walked down
[01:00.740]Katahrins Mountain
[01:03.40]And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
[01:10.470]Said won't you walk with me out of the mouth
[01:16.610]Of this holler
[01:18.380]Or we'll never leave Harlan alive
[01:25.290]Where the sun comes up
[01:29.230]About ten in the morning
[01:32.770]And the sun goes down
[01:36.340]About three in the day
[01:39.430]And you fill your cup with whatever
[01:44.350]Bitter brew you're drinking
[01:46.470]And you spend your life just
[01:49.360]Thinkin'of how to get away
[01:55.870]No one ever knew there was
[02:00.270]Coal in them mountains
[02:03.710]'Til a man from the Northeast arrived
[02:10.770]Waving hundred dollar bills he
[02:14.770]Said I'll pay ya for your minerals
[02:18.600]But he never left Harlan alive
[02:29.40]Granny sold out cheap and
[02:32.660]They moved out west
[02:34.950]Of Pineville
[02:36.240]To a farm where big Richland
[02:38.760]River winds
[02:42.740]I bet they danced them a jig
[02:46.30]Laughed and sang a new song
[02:49.420]Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive
[03:25.880]But the times got hard and
[03:29.790]Tobacco wasn't selling
[03:33.150]And ole granddad knew
[03:35.220]What he'd do to survive
[03:39.760]He went and dug for Harlan coal
[03:43.380]And sent the money back to granny
[03:47.560]But he never left Harlan alive
[03:55.869]Where the sun comes up
[03:59.979]About ten in the morning
[04:03.769]And the sun goes down
[04:07.749]About three in the day
[04:11.349]And you fill your cup with
[04:15.779]Whatever bitter brew you're drinking
[04:18.859]And you spend your life just
[04:23.858]You will never leave Harlan alive