I have listened to several sound samples of Peg Leg Howell singing COAL MAN BLUES, and I have pieced together the following lyrics, which are incomplete:

…Got me some eggs and a nice porkchop,
Cheap cigar and a magazine,
Had to run pretty fast to catch the 5:15.

Let me tell you something that I seen:
Coal man got run over by the 5:15.
Cut off his arms and it crashed his ribs.
Did the poor man die? No, the poor man lived.

Let me tell you something that I know:
Coal man got run over by the 5...
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Call the coal, the stove-wood man.
Call the coal and the stove-wood man.
I ain't got but a little bit left.
If you don't come get it, gonna burn it myself.

Get the wood in the stove and the match in your hand,
Wood in the stove and the match in your hand,
Wood in the stove and the match in your hand,
You run to the door and stop the jelly (?) coal man.

Sell it to the rich and I sell it to the poor,
Sell it to the rich and I sell it to the poor,
Sell it to the rich and I sell it to the poor…