Hillbilly Highway

Cut back our hours over ten months ago
it kept us runnin’ but we all know
You can’t keep on digging when
but the coal ain’t got nowhere to go
They shut the miner down
and they called all of us in
including me laid off more than 200 men
Is it a War on Coal or a War on Poverty
It really doesn’t matter
just feels like a war on me
Been working underground since I left high school
and there is nothing else that I can do
but take a job out west
or stay right here and starve to death
Drive 300 miles from Harlan to Greenville
It’s still Kentucky but I sure do miss those hills
I’ve been camping out in my old ‘94 RV
I look out these windows
and flat fields are all I see

Hillbilly Highway
You might lead me away
I will travel down your lonesome road
but I won’t stay
Someday I’ll go back the same way that I came in
Try to build myself new life
‘til I can go back home again

I’ve seen men come and seen them quit
move back east because they’re just too homesick
count the months that go by
til I have the money to send for my wife
she’ll bring my step kids they are 14 and 5
But I had to leave my little baby girl behind
When I get the time off I head straight back to town
to see her and my mom and dad
and all the stores are closing down

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