i m a harlan man i went down in the mine when i was barely grown it was easy then cause i didn t know what i know now but i m a family man and it s the only life that i ve ever known but i m a harlan man just as long as my luck and lungs hold out i m a mountain man born in east kentucky and here i ll stay and if it s the good lord s plan i ll wake up in the mornin and find i m lookin at the end of another long week and i can draw my pay cause i m a harlan man and you never catch me whinin i ain t that kind i m a union man just like my daddy and all my kin i took a union stand no matter what the company said i got me two good hands just as long as i m able i won t give in cause i m a harlan man be a coal mining mother till the day i m dead