The Durham Lockout chords by Alex Campbell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C  F  C      F  C

Verse:
              F                  C     F      C
In our Durham County, boys, I am sorry for to say
                    F C                         Am
That hunger and starvation are increasing every day
        C                F  C                       Am
For the want of food and coals, we know not what to do
    C                F                 C       F        C
But with your kind assistance, we will see the struggle through

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                     F             C         F          C
I need not state the reason why we have been brought so low
                   F       C                      Am
The masters have behaved unkind, as everyone will know
        C            F     C                                   Am
Because we won't lie down, boys, and let them treat us as they like
   C                 F                    C          F       C
To punish us they've stopped the pits and caused the present strike

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                       F                    C         F      C
The pulley wheels have ceased to move, that once went swift around
                   F      C                          Am
The horses and the ponies too, all brought from underground
    C             F       C                        Am
Our work is taken from us now, they care not if we die
    C                F                C        F          C
For they can eat the best of food and drink the best when dry

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                  F              C       F       C
The miner and his wife too, each morning have to roam
                     F    C                 Am
To seek for bread to feed their children at home
    C               F     C                          Am
The flour barrel is empty now, our true and faithful friend
      C                   F               C          F     C
Which makes the thousands wish today, the strike was at an end

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                 F            C      F       C
We have done our very best as honest working men
                   F      C                           Am
To let the pits commence again, we've offered to them ten
    C               F     C                      Am
The offer they will not accept, they firmly do demand
C              F                C       F          C
Thirteen and a half percent, or let the collieries stand

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                  F             C            F     C
Let them stand or let them lie, do with them as we choose
                            F       C                     Am
To give them thirteen and a half percent, we ever shall refuse
        C              F    C                          Am
They're always willing to receive, but not inclined to give
    C              F             C       F      C
And very soon they won't allow a working man to live

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                 F               C        F    C
The miners of Northumberland, we shall forever praise
                     F       C                     Am
For being so kind in helping us, those tyrannising days
   C               F         C                             Am
We thank the other countries too, that have been doing the same
    C             F                     C          F      C       F  C
And every man who hears this song, will know we're not to blame