I could see the pride in your eyes

When you got the news that day

Sixty hours a week, tires on a Jeep

And you'd have off every twelve days

I never thought that mistress in the mountain

Might take you 'way from me

But, sometimes, you've gotta dance with the devil

To put shoes on baby's feet

So I'll pack your lunch and send you off into the dark

I pray that mine won't steal you

from me like you stole my heart

And I will wait for you 'til you're gray and old

And if that mountain calls you home, with you, I will go

I will wait for you 'til those hills run out of coal

And the county company folds and we all go broke

I spend my honeymoon in thе livin' room

You spend yours down in the mines

But at agе nineteen, yeah, that was fine with me

But it gets harder over time

When you're home

go straight to bed 'cause you're too tired to speak

Darlin', I don't mind the lonely or the ashes in the sheets

And I will wait for you 'til you're gray and old

And if that mountain calls you home, with you, I will go

I will wait for you 'til those hills run out of coal

And the county company folds and we all go broke

And I will wait for you and when we get old and gray

I'll thank the good Lord every day that we got there

And I will wait for you even if that mountain wins

I won't let this be the end, I won't give up hope

Love don't go broke