Name: You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive-sing backup, piano
Duration: 3 min 43 s
Channel: Darrell Scott
Description: "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive-sing backup, piano" is a song by Numi Who Creative Covers. Accompaniment to a Rendition of the Darrell Scott Country Standard you'll_never_leave_harlan_alive_accompany_04b_percussion

Accompaniment to a Rendition of the Darrell Scott Country Standard you'll_never_leave_harlan_alive_accompany_04b_percussion

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Numi Who Creative Covers

Here, I create cover songs while I wait for humanity to adopt the Philosophy of Broader Survival.

Play it LOUD and through a good audio device (anything but cell phone speakers, which I did not mix to). Cover Songs on Soundclick: https://www.soundclick.com/numiwhocreativecovers Writing: https://allpoetry.com/Mr._Numi_Who- Books: Numi Who? on Amazon (books) Art: http://wbiro.deviantart.com Early Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38154648@N00 Music Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/wbiro Self-made Music Catalog (to 2016): http://numi-imagination-creations.me/01-art-catalog/wbiro_artistic_catalog_1967-2016_update_34.html Original Music on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/wbiro Cover Songs on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/user-288568536

Song Info

Genre

Country • Cover Songs

Charts

Peak #117

Peak in subgenre #12

Author

Darrell Scott

Rights

2011

Uploaded

October 14, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.1 MB • 192 kbps • 3:43

Story behind the song

Poet/Singer Sarah Firebaugh uploaded an a Capella recording, so I added instruments and some back-up vocals

Lyrics

In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I traced my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
"You'll never leave Harlan alive"

Oh my grandfather's dad crossed the Cumberland Mountains
Where he took a pretty girl to be his bride
Said "Won't you walk with me out the mouth of this holler
Or we'll never leave Harlan alive"

Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin'
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you'll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinkin'
And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
Till a man from the northeast arrived
Waving hundred dollar bills
Said "I'll pay you for your minerals"
But he never left Harlan alive

Grandma sold out cheap and they moved out west of Pikeville
To a farm where Big Richaldn River winds
And I bet they danced them a jig
And they laughted and sang a new song
"Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive"

But the times got hard and tobacco wasn't selling
And old grandad knew what he'd do to survive
He went and dug for Harlan coal
And sent the money back to grandma
But he never left Harlan alive

Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin'
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you'll fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinkin'
And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

You'll never leave Harlan alive

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