I stumbled across Justified by accident. Watched all 6 seasons and then went back to the beginning and started again. Some of the best television ever.

I’m a Kentucky state trooper and work Harlan county. This song means a lot to the ppl to live there

This reminds me of the holler where I mostly grew up. I was raised with my feet in both worlds; our family home (WV) was a shack on 56.04 acres way back up Kerby Holler and then up the mountain. I can't say it was totally primitive because we did have 3 light bulbs hanging from wires draped across the ceiling. We'd wake in the mornings with that daggone rooster crowing outside our window (arrgghh, how I hated that thing! It was like an alarm clock without an "off" button!) On the cold mornings, my Mama would send me outside for wood (or coal, if we had it). I'd crawl back in bed under the covers that I shared with my three brothers and my Mom while my dad was in Vietnam (or some other Marine Corps part of the world). She'd stoke the coals from the night before until she got it roaring. Only then could we crawl out of bed to the tea or oatmeal she had prepared for our breakfast. We joked that we did have running water, but we had to run out to the spring and run back with it. You don't have to read between the lines to realize that we had no indoor plumbing, but an outhouse out back which was a fearful thing in the dead of winter. When I was 7 years old, we got a gas stove fueled by bottled gas from a tank hung outside. It was glorious! No more getting up to get wood or coal; we just ran to the kitchen where Mom had the warm oven door down holding our breakfast, warm and inviting. We had no grass, just a dirt driveway down to the dirt road and everything else was mountains, trees, plants, weeds, and rocks. However, Dad would come home for 2-3 years and we would live on a Marine Corps base (once in Hawaii and the rest of the times in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina). These times were like plush vacations for us as we lived in a solid house, safe from the elements, with running water, electricity in every room, and central heat & AC! Ahhh, the life of luxury! Then, when it came time for Dad to ship off, we would move back to the holler. However, as kids, we didn't mind it so much, although it would drive Mom absolutely insane!

This show is still somehow criminally under-watched and unknown by most. Easily in my top 5.

Raylan is one of those "once in a lifetime" characters. And, Timothy Olyphant was literally the ONLY person who could play him. Walton Goggins' portrayal of Boyd was also cinematic perfection. Two great powerhouses in a single series, in the absolute peak of their character portrayal and writing matchups!!!

“I’ve been accused of being many things, inarticulate ain’t one of them.” That made me laugh so hard when Boyd said that, I love the little self-aware moment.

The world needs more contemporary westerns like Justified...

I'm from a village in South Africa where the sun come out at 10 am and sets at 3 pm because of all the mountains, people spends their days drinking and wishing for something better. I got out but man! this song hits home.

Timothy Oliphant was responsible for many sleep-deprived nights for me as I binge-watched Justified. The love and hate between Raylan and Boyd was a kind of surging current that I could not swim against. Justified one of the most well produced, powerful series I've ever seen.

Walton Goggin and timothy Olyphant are an unbeatable combination.

Anyone else was almost in tears when Boyd and Raylan's last conversation? Such an awesome TV series.

The whole entire cast of justified are some of the greatest actors I've ever watched. Boyd Crowder hands down one of the best bad guys

"You shot me in the Back"...Raylan, "If you wanted to be shot in the front, you should have been running towards me"...

“If ya make me pull, I’ll put you down.”

I'm a Helton and from Harlan, Ky. My daddy was a coal miner and had Black Lung. He went to DC and fault for Black Lung Benefits in the early 70's. I know exactly where Catrons Valley is. My roots are definitely in Harlan, still live here.

Boyd Crowder : *sprawled on the ground after taking a sucker punch to the gut from Raylen* - "Well if I take this conversation vertical can I expect more of the same?"....I miss this show...some of the best dialogue I've seen on TV in ages.

"A man that talks out of both sides of his mouth, deserves to have it permanently shut." Boyd Crowder

I blew my mind when I found out this song wasn't written for the show. It really is a testament to both the song and the show that they can evoke such visceral emotions even if you didn't grow up in a coal mining family or in a place like Harlan.

Never fails to give me chills, this song.

I am from Western Asia, so how come I love westerns so much? I blame my dad and John Ford.

To this day, I still think Justified had the best ending to a show that I have ever seen.

The kinda music you listen to when you want to get wasted by yourself

Boyd Crowder is one of the greatest character of all time !

May 20 2020. Im here during the dismantling of the USA. These are bad times. No one to bring unity and reassurance. So I’ll retreat into my music. Stay safe all!

Lyrics: In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky That's the place where I trace my bloodline And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone You will never leave Harlan alive Oh, my granddad's dad walked down Katahrins Mountain And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride Said, won't you walk with me out of the mouth Of this holler Or we'll never leave Harlan alive Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning And the sun goes down about three in the day And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains Till a man from the Northeast arrived Waving hundred dollar bills he said I'll pay ya for your minerals But he never left Harlan alive Granny sold out cheap and they moved out west Of Pineville To a farm where big Richland River winds I bet they danced them a jig, laughed and sang a new song Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive But the times got hard and tobacco wasn't selling And ole granddad knew what he'd do to survive He went and dug for Harlan coal And sent the money back to granny But he never left Harlan alive Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning And the sun goes down about three in the day And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning And the sun goes down about three in the day And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky That's the place where I trace my bloodline And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone You will never leave Harlan alive

I'm the grandson of Southern KY share croppers and Eastern KY coal miners, born and raised in KY. As much as this song speaks to, there's a universal melancholy about being a working family in America.

Justified, quite possibly "the best" written, acted and directed series on TV ever, I'd even put it above The Shield, which was brilliant in its day.

I think part of the draw of this song is that while most people don't literally come from Kentucky coal country, as a metaphor everyone can relate. If you follow someone's lineage back, you can almost always find a place people love to hate and hate to love; where they work a job and live a life they will curse to hell twice over with every breath, right until they leave it and can never feel right anywhere else.

Not really a country music fan, but this song is hauntingly beautiful.

I am from the cold north in Canada. The soul of this song stays the same for all the one horse soul crushing towns where you dream to escape but just cant.

It wasn't a coal mine, but I'm Southern Indiana born and my papaw grew up in the shadow of and still lives in the shadow of the Rock Quarry that my whole family has worked in. We will never leave Crawford alive. This song brought 3 generations of strip miners to the verge of tears one summer day.

Never been a big country fan, but the way this song opens up to the listener.. Wow. This song got under my skin. Awesome tune.

Patty Loveless also does an amazing version of this song. Darrell Scott wrote just a really haunting song with this one.

I love the way he starts out in a minor mode, and then when he sings "Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning," he changes to a happier sounding major sound that some how still sounds sad. That change gives me chills.

I have family that live there and my Dad was a Officer of the law. Coal was a big part of growing up. And so much more. God Bless the people who still hold the Mountain and all the love of God Almighty. From FLORIDA.🌿🕊️☕🦩☕🕊️🌿

If you're moved by this song, please do yourself the favor of seeing Darrell Scott do a solo show. He will move you to tears.

I live in Hazard, Kentucky. It's a shame they didn't film Justified in Harlan. We could have used the money with the coal mines shutting down.

A lot of songs have laid claim to the title of "The perfect country song", and I think this one has a pretty solid case.

My young heart will always chase the ghosts from a better time with family and friends in those hills. We thought we all had it so bad and looking at the world now I think Everyone was just jaded and poor economically but we so blessed to have one another who needs money when your always around healthy loved ones and b4 ustart I know alot of us are gone now ......Gone but never forgotton or unloved.

This song is just like the series. You're intrigued at the start, and while you enjoy it you're not thinking it's all that special yet. Then somewhere in there, it sinks in deep and the closer it gets to the end the more you realize your heart's all-in on it. When it's over you feel a little empty and a little heartsick. And you just yearn for those early moments when it was all fresh and hopeful and there was no real tomorrow but the romantic one you dreamed up while sipping this in. I miss you, Justified. I guess not all of me made it out of you alive, either. We dug coal together.

The series pulled you into the fabric of their lives. You became woven into the love, the passion and the tragedies. The music stirred the depths of emotion. You were moved to tears and laughter. You engaged the dialogues and walked their paths of human pain and pleasure. At the end, after experiencing the culture and the creed, it was all Justified.

Just finished season 2 ... just WOW ! This show is beyond amazing !

My great grandfather died in a coal mine. My papaw lost his arm in one. That last scene was powerful for me, and this song was perfect...

And you fill your cup, with whatever bitter brew you"re drinking. WHAT a line.

Eastern Kentucky native 🙋‍♂️

Justified is the best show that I've seen. Just loved all of it and especially the last season and last episode, it was just a great and heart felt ending. "We dug coal together". I could watch it all over again, and this song just hits home after you seen the ending.

As a coal miner who started in Scotland Worked in Australia, And the USA, I love miners, the tough shit they have to go thru every day, and keep going with "Nary" a word of complaint. Unbeatable!!

Currently re-watching the series; once again, amazing, every character is with his unique personality, every dialogue is a work of art, good show.

Magnificent end to Justified. Last episode == true classic for TV for years and years to come

Harlan was as much a character in the series as Raylan and Boyd.

This song is a nail in your soul. there is an Harlan in all of us. Amazing show also.

I just finished watching the entire series for the first time on my Firestick. One of the best shows ever! I didn't want it to end. I tried to pace myself, but I still burned through the whole thing in about a month. I'll wait a while and watch it all over again.

Remember your ABCs. Always Be Cool. (Boyd Crowder.) Well it might not be cool to cry listening to this song, but I have. More than once. Long live Darrell Scott and Justified !

My mom's side of my family is from Harlan County, Evarts to be exact. I grew up close to there in Virginia and spent a good deal of time in Harlan. I worked in the coal mines for years in Virginia like my father, and his father's father. I have since moved to North Carolina, work in a chemical solvent extraction company. But I always love listening to this song to remind me of the way it was back home. God bless all you coal miners, digging from their grave. It is not an easy life. Take care of yourselves

Wasn’t sure about this series at first glance, but as I watched more and more, I got hooked. Just finished season 6. This song will forever remind me of Raylan Givens, Boyd Crowder and Justified. Now I’m looking for more just like it. 🇨🇦

One of the best shows I’ve ever seen tbh 😎 rewatched it a good amount of times

I wish they had made about twenty more seasons of Justified.....

I left Harlan Alive...And been back and have made it out each time...WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE...PURE COUNTRY ...I live only 20 miles from HARLAN TO THIS DAY...(even though I know many who didn't leave ...except maybe in a Pine Box....😉

Justified is by far the best Show on TV sad it ended. The cast was truly amazing.

Raylan Givens: Well, I suppose if I allow myself to be sentimental, despite all that has occurred, there is one thing I wander back to. Boyd Crowder: We dug coal together. Raylan Givens: That's right. Me: on tears :(

The more I hear this version, the more I like it the most.

Have just rewatched all seasons of Justified after several years. Fantastic series - great characters, great actors.

I have all seasons and play them till they are grey, love this TV show 👍👍 perfect cast, story and soundtrack 👍👍

I'm listening to this and looking out at the knobs here in my Kentucky home . This music strums the strings of my soul . It goes deep down like the roots on the 100 yr old trees off the porch . Dappled sunlight streams through the branches and shines on my face . There's nothing like sitting at the old home place . Sipping on some shine and musing about my old friend Bill . He never left the bluegrass and now he never will , he's buried in his grave, way up on the hill .

I loved how when Raylen and Boyd talked to each they spoke as if they were philosophers.

For those who know what happened there and are from Kentucky this song hits diffrent there's just no way to explain it

June 29, 2021. I came here through the music group Gangstagrass that was just on America’s Got Talent. That let me to the show Justified which I’d never heard until today. I just started watching Season 1. Beautiful version of the song. Thanks

Spirits on the rocks go hand and hand with this music. Having a couple of glasses with the wife at this very moment.

Thank for sharing. Funny how a TV show has introduced me to so much good music.

Such a great show. Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins both really made that show great.

Possibly the greatest show on TV! The song is excellent too!

Loved the show rank it up there with sons of anarchy!

I knew Darrell Scott. I used to go to merlefest with him and his daughter when I was kid. He is super underrated. 🖤 Never forget those times.

I'm a fan of old westerns and this show was brilliant for dragging a lot of that into newer days. Loved it!!

Jimmy: “What do we do now?” Boyd: “Take a few moments to contemplate the mortal remains of Henry Willis and to thank him for being more useful in death than he ever was in life.” Jimmy: “You knew this guy?” Boyd: “Ironically I did. He started drinking at ten got hooked on oxi by the time he was fifteen and that was all she wrote. But we all end up where he is sooner or later.”

Perfect cast, Perfect plot(s), Perfect script(s), Perfect protagonist, Perfect cinematography, Perfect antagonist(s), Perfect editing, Perfect characters, Perfect level of action and pacing.....JUSTIFIED! Hell Yes! Signed ~Dewey Crowe~

Omg I watched all 6 seasons in 2 weeks and I fell in love

Justified and Hell On Wheels are hidden gems.

A true breath of fresh air in a world that worships people like Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar....

I'm from NYC, born and raised. My friends always give me crap for not just liking this type of music...but absolutely loving it. I can't live without it. It makes me feel alive.

One of the best shows ever made. Its sad there was only 6 seasons.

I miss this show. My father's side of the family is from hollers of Allen County and to see a modern "western" set in the state that half of my roots were from was everything. Raylan Givens was 100%

Great rendition but Patty Loveless will bring tears to your eyes. Just started watching justified and mad that I was introduced to it. Earlier.

Almost 2024 I want to give my thoughts and prayers to the people this song represents.Lot of my long since generations over them hills.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Hard times breed hard folks.

I can summarize all six seasons in four words. “We dug coal together.”

having lived in Kentucky, and having visited friends and family in Harlan. ..it is true...you can never leave Harlan alive..

Justified...one HELLUVA show. Boyd Crowder rocked it!

Some of the best television in history. Scott is superb as well.

I need more songs like this

Harlan county. Born, Raised, Residing. \m/

In the deep, dark hills of eastern Kentucky That's the place where I trace my bloodline And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone "You will never leave Harlan alive" Well my grandad's dad walked down Katahrin's Mountain And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride He said, "Won't you walk with me out of the mouth of this holler Or we'll never leave Harlan alive" Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning And the sun goes down about three in the day And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew your drinking And you spend your life just thinking how to get away No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains Til a man from the northeast arrived Waving hundred dollar bills, he said "I'll pay you for your minerals" But he never left Harlan alive Well Granny, she sold out cheap and they moved out west to Pineville To a farm where Big Richland River winds And I'll bet they danced them a jig, and they laughed and sang a new song "Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive?" But the times, they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling And old Granddad knew what he'd do to survive He went and dug for Harlan coal and sent the money back to Granny But he never left Harlan alive

Salut!. J'adore cette version de Darrell et celle de Ruby Friedman. Je descends d'agriculteurs et la troisième génération qui ne l'est pas. Ils ne sont jamais retournés dans les villages, mais cette chanson me transporte dans les histoires qu'ils m'ont racontées. Et la série est magnifique.

Justified IMHO stands up much better than some other really great shows (like The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad) on 2nd or even 3rd viewings. Just confirms how great and unique it really was. The incredible characters and dialogue and from best crime writer Elmore Leonard. Love this ominous Darrell Scott song at the end of most seasons.

Love this song! Thanks from Norway 🇳🇴

Timothy Oliphant was born about 30 years to late. He was a great cowboy character. Could have been the 2nd coming of Clint Eastwood. Was great as Raylan Givens. A real original

The picture is so badass. Simple but elegant and fierce.

Far and away, one of the best series I have ever seen. Timothy Olyphant was perfect in the role, though much younger than Elmore Leonard's character. It was well acted and engrossing with excellent music.

Best show that was on TV for the longest time. Deadwood was awesome too!

"We dug coal together."

I didn't think I liked country till I watched this show then heard this song...man..I aint gonna leave Harlan alive