Coal chords by Tyler Childers

Coal
By: Tyler Childers
Tabbed by: Shaun Horine

Capo 1

Verse 1

    Em                    G                  D                A       A
Now God made coal for the men who sold their lives to Wes van Leer

        Em                       G                         D                A
And you keep on diggin' 'til you get down there where it's darker than your darkest

        A
fear.

         Em                            G                       D                 A      A
And that woman in the kitchen tries to keep on cookin' but she ain't had meat in years

     Em                 G                   D                 A        A
Just live off bread and live off hope and a pool of a million tears.

          Em                           G               D                     A  A
Now lemme tell you somethin' 'bout the Gospel and make sure that you mark it down

     Em                 G                          D                  A         A
When God spoke out "Let there be light" he put the first of us in the ground.

          Em                       G                      D                 A       A
And we'll keep on diggin' 'til the comin' of the lord and Gabriel's trumpet sound

          Em                       G                      D                  A       A
'Cause if you ain't minin' for the company boy then there ain't much in this town.


Chorus

   Em                          G                        D
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that

A        A
knew

     Em      G          D           A           A
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.


Solo

Verse 2

         Em            G                D             A       A
Now it's darker than a dungeon and it's deeper than a well

   Em           G               D                       A       A
So sometimes I imagine that I'm getting pretty close to hell.

    Em            G       D              A       A
And in my darkest hour, I cry out to the lord.

        Em         G                D                   A       A
He says keep on 'a minin' boy cause that's why you were born.

Chorus

   Em                          G                        D
We coulda made somethin' of ourselves out there if we'd listened to the folks that

A        A
knew

     Em      G          D           A           A
That co------ooooo------oal's gonna bury you.


Solo

End