West Virginia Mine Disaster chords by Jean Ritchie

Chords with lyrics

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

E MajorE BB F#F# F# minorF#m C# minorC#m B minorBm A augmentedA C majorC

F# minorF#m F#F#               B minorBm     F#F#
Say, did you see him walking? it was early this morning
F#F#               BB     F# minorF#m
He passed by your house on his way to the coal
F# minorF#m                 BB  F#F#
He was tall, he was slender, and his blue eyes so tender
     A augmentedA      BB            F#F#  E MajorE BB F#F#
His occupation was mining, West Virginia his home

F#F#        E MajorE      BB      F#F#
It was just about noon, I was feeding the children
F#F#        E MajorE       BB      C# minorC#m
Ben Moseley come running for to give us the news
    F# minorF#m     E MajorE       B minorBm   F# minorF#m
Number eight is all flooded, many men are in danger
    A augmentedA        BB                F#F#  E MajorE BB
And we don't know their number, but we fear they're all gone

F#F#         E MajorE     BB      F# minorF#m
So I picked up the baby and I left all the others
  F# minorF#m       E MajorE     BB      C# minorC#m
For to comfort each other and pray for our own
    F# minorF#m    F#F#        BB       F# minorF#m
There's Tommy, fourteen, and there's John not much younger
        A augmentedA      BB              F#F#
Soon their own time will be coming to go down the black hole

E MajorE  BB  F# minorF#m F# minorF#m

F# minorF#m            BB        F# minorF#m
Now what will I say to his poor little children?
  F# minorF#m            B minorBm    C# minorC#m
And what will I tell his dear mother at home?
  F# minorF#m     F#F#       B minorBm         F# minorF#m
And what will I say to my poor heart that's clear broken?
   A augmentedA         BB         F#F#    E MajorE  BB
To My heart that's clear broken if my baby is gone

F# minorF#m F#F# E MajorE  BB

C#C# F#F# E MajorE  BB

F# minorF#m F# minorF#m A augmentedA BB

BB F#F#  F# minorF#m

F# minorF#m
Now if I had the money to do more than just feed them
F# minorF#m        F#F#      BB       C# minorC#m
I'd give them good learning, the best could be found
F# minorF#m        E MajorE      BB      F# minorF#m
So when they grew up they'd be checkers and weighers
       A augmentedA     B minorBm   BB              F# minorF#m
And not spend their life digging in (drawn out) the dark underground

E MajorE B minorBm F# minorF#m F#F#

   F# minorF#m       F#F#       BB     F#F#
Say, did you see him walking? it was early this morning
         F#F#      BB      C# minorC#m
He passed by your house on his way to the coal
    F# minorF#m     F# minorF#m       B minorBm      F# minorF#m
He was tall, he was slender, and his blue eyes so tender
    A augmentedA     B minorBm (Several) BB      F#F#
His occupation was mining, West Virginia his home