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Well, my daddy worked in the coal mine
Until the company shut it down
Then he sat around and drank his-self blind
Until we put him back underground
Now nothing grows on this mountain
And what's a poor boy to do?
Except to wander these hills, forgotten
With the oxycontin blues
Well I never cared much for whiskey
Because it only made daddy mean
Wrapped a little bit tight, they tell me
For the methamphetamine
Then my cousin come up from Knoxville
And he taught me a thing or two
Now I'm headed nowhere but downhill
With the oxycontin blues
Got a dollar bill in my pocket
Got a half a tank in my truck
Going to go and pawn grandma's locket
Hell, maybe it'll change my luck
Ain't nothing going to be right no how
Because I know I can't ever lose
This devil that's dragging me down
And the oxycontin blues