Standard (EADGBE)

Many’s the times I’ve walked its banks

 With tearful pride and humble thanks

 It’s baptized my soul and made me whole

Freed my hands from dirty coal

Many small houses sit on its backs

Catalogues odf dreams and praire sof thanks

Washed my body and cleaneed my mind

It’s been cruel and it’s been kind

Coal River, Coal River

Coal River I’ve come home

I see my daddy all tired and worn

A gentleman, yet full of scorn

We sit on the front porch and watch it (?)

Dream of knowledge and talk of pain

But that old city got to big for me

Just like the river our love runs free

So here I am and here I’ll stay

I’ll just live my life from day to day on

Coal River, Coal River