the sky was as black as the water   and you could choke on the breeze   and the coal miner's daughters   they were shouting from the trees      "come on come on   and stop staring like a dead man   come on come on   baby take my hand"      no goodbyes, no sympathy   one by one they were gone   lord I ain't never felt so weak   since the day the damn broke   down at buffalo creek      "hey don't you know, we ain't got no place   we ain't got no place to go   hey yeah, don't you know, we ain't go no place to go"      I feel as naked as the day I was born   I was marked by a bad sign   my daddy kicked the bucket in the second world war   my momma drowned in the tears sent down by the lord      they said "come on come on,   you gotta find some higher ground   come on come on   you ain't got time to be standing around"      no goodbyes, no sympathy   one by one they were gone   lord I ain't never felt so weak   since the day the damn broke   down at buffalo creek      "hey don't you know, we ain't got no place   we ain't got no place to go   hey yeah, don't you know, we ain't go no place to go"      I lost my momma   I lost my kin   in the black black river   makes a man shiver   again and again and again