Coal Miners Grave chords by Hazel Dickens

{Intro}
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Verse 1:
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Up there on that hillside there's an old miner's grave
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The briars and bushes bout cover it up these days
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But there's no one to claim it or care if he's gone away
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Cause he's only a miner and it's only a coal miner's grave

Verse 2:
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So  pay no attention; it's only an old miner's grave
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Pay no attention to the briars and the weeds - let them stay
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Who's gonna miss him or care that he's gone a-way
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Cause he's only a miner and it's only a coal miner's grave

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Verse 3:
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Francis Estep from Holly Grove W Va
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In nineteen and thirty loaded coal ten hours a day
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Six days a week  forty-seven and a half cents a ton
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Until he was shot down by gun thugs at the young age of thirty-one

Verse 4:
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So the briars and brambles ramble all over his grave
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Like the thorns in his life  for living he had to pay
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Who's going to miss him  care that he's gone a-way
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Cause he's only a miner and it's only a coal miner's grave

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{Verse 4}
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So is this little marker his only memorial today?
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A man  who gave his life for the U M W of A
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Is this how we remember all the sacrifices he made?
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To let the briars and the bushes grow over his Union and grave

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