Here are the lyrics, from http://www.ohvec.org/non_html_documents/newsletter_pdf/enotes_1998_10.pdf (Warning: this URL freezes my computer)

THEY CAN'T PUT IT BACK

Down the valley, about a mile from me
Where the crows no longer cry,
There's a great big earth-moving monster machine.
Lordy, it stands 10 stories high.
And the ground it can it, it's a sight.
Lord, it takes a hundred tons at a bite.
It can dig up the grass, it's a fact,
-but it can't put it back.

They come and tell me I've got to move
To make way for that big machine,
But I ain't a-movin' unless they kill me
Like they killed the fish in my stream.
But look at that big machine go.
Took that shady grove a long time to grow.
It can rip it out with one whack,
-but it can't put it back.

You can bet your sweet life you're gonna hear from me.
I ain't gonna take it layin' down.
'Cause I'm getting tired of seeing rocks that bleed
On the bare guts of the ground.
I ain't a-gonna sell my soul
So they can rip out another tiny little vein of coal.
I ain't moving out of my track,
-'cause they can't put it back.

(c) 1956, 1971, Quartet Music and Bexhill Music Co., available on the tape "We Are Not for Sale", produced by the WV Environmental Council, Charleston, WV, 304-346-5891.