Coal Miner's Daughter

Fire! Fire in the hole.

Fire in the hole!

Let's get it, boys. Always loads easy on payday.

Hi, Daddy. Look at your knee. Daddy, why don't you wear your knee pad?

Oh, Loretty, that old shaft's so low,

you wear your knee pads, you skin your back.

If you don't wear 'em, you skin your knees.

I'll wear 'em tomorrow and give my back a turn.

Boys, there ain't no place this thing can't take me.

There ain't a creek she can't ford, a gully she can't jump

or a hill she can't climb.

By God, I know a thing that you can't climb.

That heap of red dog back yonder.

Oh, hell, buddy, I can climb that damn mess

in a by-God New York minute.

Shit! Hey!

You boys watch your language in front of these kids.

All right, does anybody wanna bet me I can't climb that mess up there?

That great pile up there?

Hell, yes, buddy! I can ride up there at the top...

Oh, I'm sorry, little girl. Excuse me.

Never done. Can't be done.

I got me $25 that says I can do it. Does anybody wanna bet me?

I'll take all bets.

Okay, come on, kids. Let's get to the store.

Give the company their money back.

Loretta, come on, honey.

Hi, Ted. Hey, Carl.

Who's that soldier boy out there

strutting around like a banty rooster?

It's old man Red Lynn's boy. Doolittle.

Come back from the army acting like a wild heathen.

He'll calm down as soon as they slap a coal shovel in his hand.

Yeah.

That Sears Roebuck I ordered come in yet?

Yeah, I'll get it for you.

All right.

Loretty, get you and Herman a jar of vyannies, honey.

Great!

Get your mule, son.

Hey, Cousin Ted,

come on in here and get in on this bet. It's a sure thing.

OI' Doolittle will never get up there

without rolling over and killin' himself.

Lord have mercy, that son of a gun Doolittle

don't know what quit means, does he?

He sure went to a lot of trouble

to get on top of a pile of junk.

Come on, Herman.

Mommy, Daddy's home!

What you got in that box?

Something special. Don't open it till we get inside.

Y'all get washed up before you come in.

Y'all hear your Mama? Everybody go wash now. Come on.

Lee Dollarhide?

Come on in here, Doo. I was just about to blast you one.

Old boy down at the store said you wanted to see me.

Here, take you a sip.

Okay, fellas.

Donald Ray.

Thanks, Daddy.

Jack, well... Hand that to brother Jack.

Thank you.

Take the baby, Jack.

How do they feel, gang?

Daddy, Peggy got two right feet.

What?

I mean, two right shoes.

I'll be darned. Don't worry. We'll get 'em changed.

How they feel? Loretta.

Get your hands off. Leave 'em alone. Leave 'em alone, Donald Ray.

Daddy.

Hey, how come she gets something extra?

Jack, Loretta's getting to be a woman. Going on 14.

Women's 'sposed to have pretty things.

Oh, she ain't no woman. She ain't nothing but a dad-burned kid.

Well, what are you, Herman?

Remember when you used to work for me,

sell my goods down at the mine?

Yeah, I remember you used to pay me a nickel for every jug I sold.

How'd you like to come back to work for me?

Not for no nickel a jug!

I'm talking about real money, Doo.

Business is good, you see. I'm selling more whiskey than I can make.

But I heard you'd been stealing some

from the boys over in Greasy Creek.

Oh, just when I run shy of my own.

I'm fixing to make me another run on Greasy Creek, Doo.

You got that jeep.

You know how to use a gun and you can use you a job.

I'll go 50-50 with you.

Doo, if you're born in the mountains, you got three choices,

coal mine, moonshine or moving on down the line.

I'm walkin' the floor over you

I can't sleep a wink, that is true

Herman, get your feet off!

Turn the radio off. We can't afford no new batteries.

You got one of your bad headaches again, Daddy?

Ted, you want me to mix you up some medicine?

It don't do no good. It'll pass.

What you see in them grounds, Mommy?

Loretty, take the baby, hon.

I see a woman crying. Looks to me like a man crying, too.

Who are they?

Loretty.

What are they crying about, Mommy?

Take the baby out and rock her, Loretty.

Bad times is a-coming.

Well, we don't need no fortune-teller to know that.

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun never shines

And I shiver when the cold wind blows

The longest train

I ever saw

Was on that Georgia line

The purtiest boy

I ever saw

Was on that caboose behind

In the pines...

Good thing you wasn't still working for him, son.

You'd be laying there aside him.

I know that, Daddy.

Course if you had have been working for him,

at least you'd have been working somewhere.

You're out.

That's all right, sweetheart, you did fine.

Get up and dance!

Preacher Banks was supposed to be here to auction off these pies.

And he's sick and I...

I sure can't take no time to auction no pies.

Besides, if these girls want to eat pies with a boy,

they'll do it whether there's an auction or not.

Say, lady, I'll auction off them pies for you.

You will? I sure will.

Six bits? Got six bits right there. Who's gonna bid a dollar?

I will!

All right, now we got a dollar right here, now.

It's a dollar one time. Boys, that's a dollar twice.

That's sold, right there, for a dollar.

Give me that dollar right there.

Thank you.

All right, you all got one more pie left.

It's a chocolate pie here, belong to

Loretta Webb.

Who's gonna bid first?

I bid two bits.

Two bits? Buddy, that's an insult!

Who's gonna start off with a dollar? Who'll give me a dollar, now?

I guess I get it, then.

Heck, I'll bid a dollar, buddy.

You're the auctioneer. You ain't supposed to bid.

Oh, all right, that's a dollar once, that's a dollar twice...

Hey, a dollar and a dime.

Three dollars.

That ain't fair, he's cheating!

All right, that's $3 once, $3 twice...

Three and a dime.

$3.75.

$3.77.

$5.

Ooh!

Once, twice, sold to Mr. Doolittle Lynn for $5.

Play in the house and play in the sea

And when that pretty girl turns to me

Swing her high and swing her low

Swing your partner, do-si-do

Takes that lamb and takes that squirrel

Takes that pretty girl round the world

Make a lot of chocolate pies, Loretta?

Not too many, except this one.

How much salt did that recipe call for?

You don't put no salt in a chocolate pie. You just put in sugar and...

Well, you must have got 'em mixed up, Loretta.

Makes a lot of sense, though. The salt and sugar's both white.

Well, there ain't no sense in walking when you can ride. Come on!

I ain't gettin' in that thing.

You ain't never rode in a car before, have you?

That ain't no car. Looks like something from Mars.

Mars? Gal, what the hell do you know about Mars anyway?

I'll bet you ain't never been past the mouth of this hollow.

Come on now, get in this thing.

I said I ain't gettin' in it and I ain't!

If you like me so much, you can walk me home.

Oh, Lord, them pies ain't the only thing salty about you, are they?

Wait a minute! Wait, we'll walk it, then. Wait!

You know, the first time I ever seen you I said,

"Me and that little ol' gal's gonna get together."

I saw you, too, in that little soldier suit.

I thought you looked just like a little toy soldier.

Hey, now, you listen here, I went ashore over yonder at D-day plus four

and I stayed in combat until the day the damn thing was over.

I wasn't no little ol' toy soldier.

You know what D-day is, don't you?

What? Never mind.

Tell you one thing that army showed me.

There's a whole big world out yonder.

Showed me I ain't about to spend my life

buried in no coal mine, neither.

Ain't no future in it, not a damn bit.

And that's what I'm interested in, mainly, course, is the future.