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