We're going to include "Down the Coal Town Road" in the upcoming Rise Again Songbook. The lyrics we're using are the ones George Seto posted above, and the author verified them as correct.

However, I learned the song from a recording by Cockersdale that has many differences in the lyrics. I really like their version, so I'm posting it here.

COAL TOWN ROAD
(Allister MacGillivray - as sung by Cockersdale)


We get up in the black, down the coal town road;
And we hike along the track where the coal trains load
And we make the ponies pull 'til they nearly break their backs,
And they never see again down the coal town road.

We hear the whistle call, down the coal town road.
And we take our tools and all where the coal trains load.
In the cages then we drop 'til there's nowhere left to fall
And we leave the world behind down the coal town road.

We never see the sun, down the coal town road.
Get a pittance for the ton, where the coal trains load.
When the cage comes up on top we're so grateful to be done
We go home to sleep and dream about the coal town road.

There are miners' little sons down the coal town road.
Playing with their cowboy guns where the coal trains load.
And they'd better make the best of their childhood while it runs
There's a pick and shovel waitin' down the coal town road.

If there's a God for us, down the coal town road.
Then the miner He can bless where the coal trains load.
For we're diggin' in a hole suckin' up that Devil's dust
Just to keep the fires burnin' down the coal town road.