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Lily​-​in​-​Coal

from YODELADY by Todd Hearon

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LILY-IN-COAL

There’s a rare kind of diamond they call the Lily-in-Coal
All across the country ’round ain’t nothing finer
You won’t catch her in Kentucky or in a West Virginia hole
No, she’s native just to North Carolina

She’s slippery as the wind in a mountain pass that blows
When the sliver of a moon’s barely shining
In the hollers and the hills where the sun never goes
That’s the only lonely place you’re gonna find her

Oh, bless my soul
I’ve been mining all my life for the Lily-in-Coal

Long before there was the legend of the California gold
That emptied out these hills of ’49ers
Before the Cherokee, before the world was told
Was the legend of this lonesome little diamond

Oh, so it goes
I’ve been mining all my life for the Lily-in-Coal
Oh, bless my soul
I’ll been mining all my life for the Lily-in-Coal

Now I wish I was conductor of a ramblin’ rattlin’ train
Or the captain of a big ol’ ocean liner
Was a lizard in the spring, or any other thing
Than a godforsaken seeking mountain miner

Rather be a groundhog or a mole
I’d root that mountain down for my Lily-in-Coal
Oh, bless my soul
I’ve been mining all my life for the Lily-in-Coal
Oh, bless my soul
I’ll been mining all my life for the Lily-in-Coal

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from YODELADY, released August 5, 2023

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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