Black Lung chords by The Dead South

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:
E minorEm                          G+G
Basically we are all alone in the centre 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

Chorus:
E minorEm          G+G        E minorEm
Wooo oooo ooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Verse:
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
E minorEm
And we never saw it again
E minorEm
Well I had a wife that I met back in High school
E minorEm         G+G
Her name was Lyla-Jean
E minorEm
We saved away to escape some place
E minorEm
On a local miner's minor pay

Chorus:
E minorEm
Whooo oooo ooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Verse:
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
E minorEm
And we never saw it again
E minorEm
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'
E minorEm              A augmentedA
At the scab of the open mine

Chorus:
E minorEm        G+G       E minorEm    E MajorE
Whooo oooo ooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o