Back Lung chords by The Dead South

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
E minorEm
Basically we are all alone in the centre
       G+G
Of a pickaxe mine
E minorEm
Black lung stings as the pickaxe swings
E minorEm
As the void of the mine closes in
E minorEm
The Devil Came and the Angels sang
E minorEm         E MajorE
A augmentedA Song of the Holy Ghost
E minorEm
Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold
E minorEm
Like the dust I spit from my mouth

E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm
Wooo oooo oooo

Verse 2:
E minorEm
Remember the night with the barroom fight
E minorEm               E MajorE
Where I killed all of my best friends
E minorEm
We gambled it away with the whiskey open keg

And we never saw it again

Well I had a wife that I met back in High school
          G+G
Her name was Lyla-Jean
E minorEm
We saved away to escape some place

On a local miner's minor pay


E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm
Wooo oooo oooo

Verse 3:
E minorEm
We saved so long the fall came and gone
E minorEm     G+G
At Least 27 times
E minorEm
It fell through the floorboards

Into deep dark darkness

And we never saw it again

West Virginia's home and that's

Where we're staying
 E minorEm            G+G
To the blade of the bible hymn
E minorEm
Jesus says we're wicked so we just keep on pickin'
              A augmentedA
At the scab of the open mine


E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm
Wooo oooo oooo